Теоретична граматика

SEMINAR
Pragmatics
Practical assignment


Exercise 1. Speech act analysis. Comment upon the communicative types of sentences and speech acts in the following dialogue:
"Are you satisfied to go on playing those sorts of parts for ever? You'll get stuck in them and the public won't take you in anything else. Seconds, that's all you'll play. Twenty pounds a week at the outside and a great talent wasted".
"I've always thought that some day or other I should get a chance of a straight part".
"When? You may have to wait ten years. How old are you now?"
"Twenty."
"What are you getting?"
"Fifteen pounds a week".
"That's a lie. You're getting twelve, and it's a damned sight more than you're worth, You don't know that every gesture must mean something. You make up too much. With your sort of face the less make-up is the better. Wouldn't you like to be a star?"
"Who wouldn't?"
"Come to me and I'll make you the greatest actress in England. Are you a quick study? You ought to be at your age" (Maugham).


Content Module IV
SEMINAR 6


Discourse analysis. Main problems of Psycholinguistics.
Objectives:

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  to assess students’ achievements in scientific understanding of modern trends of linguistics;
  
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  to get them accustomed to advanced approach to linguistic analysis -Discourse analysis;
  
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  to contribute to trainees’ further development of their cognitive skills and to encourage them into further scientific work on the issues of the theory of linguistics.
  

Questions for discussion:

1. The notion of Discourse. Discourse analysis – the study of language in use.

2. 
   Maxims of conversation.
   
3. 
   Implicatures of discourse.
   
4. 
   The subjectmatter of psycholinguistics.
   

Recommended literature:

1. 
   Vyvyan Evans and Melanie Green. Cognitive linguistica. an introduction. - Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh- 2006 – 851 p.
   
2. 
   Langacker, Ronald (1987) Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Volume I. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
   
3. 
   Langacker, Ronald (1991) Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Volume II. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
   
4. 
   Langacker, Ronald (1993) ‘Reference-point constructions’, Cognitive Linguistics, 4, 1–38.
   
5. 
   Langacker, Ronald (1999a) ‘Assessing the cognitive linguistic enterprise’, in T. Janssen and G. Redeker (eds), Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations, Scope, and Methodology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 13–60.
   
6. 
   Langacker, Ronald (1999b) Grammar and Conceptualization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
   
7. 
   Langacker, Ronald (1999c) ‘Losing control: grammaticization, subjectification and transparency’, in A. Blank and P. Koch (eds), Historical Semantics and Cognition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 147–175 (revised version, Chapter 10 in Grammar and Conceptualization).
   
8. 
   Langacker, Ronald (2000) ‘A dynamic usage-basked model’, in M. Barlow and S. Kemmer (eds), Usage-Based Models of Language. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, pp. 1–64.
   
9. 
   Langaker, Ronald ([1991] 2002) Concept, Image, Symbol: The Cognitive Basis of Grammar, 2nd edn. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
   
10. 
    Laurence, Stephen and Eric Margolis (1999) ‘Concepts and cognitive science’, in E. Margolis and S. Laurence (eds), Concepts: Core Readings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 3–81.
    
11. 
    Lee, David (2001) Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.