Universität Wien

160104 VO Introduction to Pragmatics, Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (2024W)

Wichtige Information für Erstsemestrige

Sie können diese LV bereits im 1. Semester besuchen, für den Antritt zur Pragmatik-Prüfung müssen Sie allerdings die drei STEOP-Prüfungen positiv absolviert haben. Da die ersten Steopprüfungen im Dezember stattfinden und die erste Prüfung zu dieser LV Ende Jänner, ist das möglich.

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 07.10. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1
  • Monday 14.10. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1
  • Monday 21.10. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1
  • Monday 28.10. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1
  • Monday 04.11. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1
  • Monday 11.11. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1
  • Monday 18.11. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1
  • Monday 25.11. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1
  • Monday 02.12. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1
  • Monday 09.12. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1
  • Monday 13.01. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1
  • Monday 20.01. 13:15 - 14:45 BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The aim of the lecture series is to provide students with the basics of pragmatics, text linguistics and discourse analysis, on which applied linguistics is based. The lecture is divided into four parts.
Firstly, the sub-disciplinary status of pragmatics, text linguistics and discourse analysis in the field of applied linguistics is outlined and the semiotic foundations of linguistic action are outlined.
Secondly, linguistic pragmatics is looked at in more detail. Firstly, the concept, history and the subdivision of pragmatics are discussed. Then, central concepts and approaches are presented which are important for linguistic pragmatics and which are used to analyse language use in a social context. The central pragmatic concepts include language function, context, field, procedure, speech act/speech act, action pattern, deixis, phoricity, presupposition, implicature, implicature, co-operation, conversational maxim. Pragmatic approaches considered in the lecture are classical speech act theory (Austin, Searle), functional pragmatics (Ehlich, Rehbein, Redder, Hoffmann etc.), the theory of implicatures (Grice), relevance theory (Sperber/Wilson) and theories of politeness (Goffman, Brown/Levinson, Watts).
In the third part of the lecture, we turn to the text linguistic foundations for analysing text structures at the micro and macro level. After a brief outline of the history of text linguistics, different text concepts and criteria for determining texts are put up for discussion, communication typologies are discussed and various forms of intertextuality are discussed. Central concepts for analysing textual context that are dealt with in the lecture are cohesion, coherence, theme-rheme progression and theme development or textual patterns (narration, description, explication, argumentation, instruction).
The fourth part of the lecture is dedicated to linguistic discourse analysis. It provides an overview of important concepts, theories, approaches, methods and research foci of linguistic discourse research. After a brief presentation of the history of linguistic discourse analysis, central concepts of discourse are compared with each other. Then, selected approaches to linguistic discourse analysis are presented with their theoretical foundations and method(ological) guidelines. These approaches include Dietrich Busse's historical discourse semantics, the corpus-based ‘Düsseldorfer Diskursanalyse’ (Karin Böke, Martin Wengeler, Thomas Niehr, Matthias Jung, Alexander Ziem etc.), the model of multi-level analysis (DIMEAN) by Ingo Warnke and Jürgen Spitzmüller and critical discourse analysis as it has been cultivated at the Viennese department of linguistics (Wodak, de Cillia, Reisigl, Rheindorf etc.) since the mid-1980s.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written exam at the end of the semester. Non-native speakers may use dictionaries (only after prior agreement with the lecturer). The exact modalities of the exam will be announced within due time before the exam.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

A positive grade requires more than 50% of the maximum of test points.

Examination topics

Content of the course

Reading list

Adamzik, Kirsten (2016): Textlinguistik. Grundlagen, Kontroversen, Perspektiven. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Angermuller, Johannes, Nonhoff, Martin, Herschinger, Eva, Macgilchrist, Felicitas, Reisigl, Martin, Wedl, Juliette, Wrana, Daniel, Ziem, Alexander (eds.) (2014): Diskursforschung. Ein interdiszi¬plinäres Handbuch. Band 1: Theorien, Methodologien und Kontroversen. Bielefeld: transcript.
Austin, John (1975 [1962]): How to do things with words. Second Edition. Cambridge/MA: Harvard University Press.
Bendel Larcher, Sylvia (2023): Linguistische Diskursanalyse. Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch. Zweite, durchgesehene und aktualisierte Auflage. Tübingen: Narr.
Brinker, Klaus, Cölfen, Hermann und Steffen Pappert (2014): Linguistische Textanalyse. Eine Einführung in Grundbegriffe und Methoden. Berlin: Schmidt.
De Beaugrande, Robert, Dressler, Wolfgang Ulrich (1981): Einführung in die Textlinguistik. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Eckardt, Regine (2021): Sprache und Kontext. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Ehlich, Konrad (2007): Sprache und sprachliches Handeln. Drei Bände. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Grice, Paul. 1975. Logic and conversation, In: Cole, Peter, Morgan Jerry L. (eds.): Syntax and Semantics 3: Speech acts. New York: Academic Press. 41–58.
Hausendorf, Heiko, Kesselheim, Wolfgang (2008): Textlinguistik fürs Examen. Gottingen: Vandenheock & Ruprecht.
Hausendorf, Heiko, Kesselheim, Wolfgang, Kato, Hiloko, Breitholz, Martina (2017): Textkommunikation. Ein textlinguistischer Neuansatz zur Theorie und Empirie der Kommunikation mit und durch Schrift. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Halliday, M.A.K., Hasan, Ruqaiya (1976): Cohesion in English. London, New York: Longman.
Levinson, Stephen C. (2000): Pragmatik: Tübingen Niemeyer.
Liedtke, Frank, Tuchen, Astrid (eds.)(2018): Handbuch Pragmatik. Stuttgart: Metzler.
Liedtke, Frank (2016): Moderne Pragmatik. Grundbegriffe und Methoden. Tübingen: Narr.
Mey, Jacob L. (2001): Pragmatics: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
Nonhoff, Martin, Herschinger, Eva, Angermuller, Johannes, Macgilchrist, Felicitas, Reisigl, Martin, Wedl, Juliette, Wrana, Daniel, Ziem, Alexander (eds.) (2014): Diskursforschung. Ein interdis¬ziplinäres Handbuch. Band 2: Methoden und Analysepraxis. Perspektiven auf Hochschul¬reform¬diskurse. Bielefeld: transcript.
Reisigl, Martin (2011): Pragmatics and (Critical) Discourse Analysis – Commo¬nalities and Differences. In: Hart, Christopher (ed.): Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition. Amsterdam. 7–26.
Reisigl, Martin (2018): Diskurslinguistik und Kritik. In: Warnke, Ingo H. (ed.): Handbuch Diskurs. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter. (Handbücher Sprachwissen HSW: Band 6) S. 173-207.
Reisigl, Martin, Ziem, Alexander (2014): Diskursforschung in der Linguistik. In: Angermuller, Johannes, Nonhoff, Martin, Herschinger, Eva, Macgilchrist, Felicitas, Reisigl, Martin, Wedl, Juliette, Wrana, Daniel, Ziem, Alexander (eds.) (2014): Diskursforschung. Ein inter-disziplinäres Handbuch. Band 1: Felder, Theorien, Methodologien. Bielefeld: transcript. S. 70-110.
Searle, John R. 1969. Speech acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Searle, John R. 1976. A classification of illocutionary acts. In: Language in Society 5. 1–23.
Sperber Dan & Deidre Wilson. 1986. Relevance: Communication and cognition, Oxford: Basil
Blackwell.
Spitzmüller, Jürgen, Warnke, H., Ingo (2011): Diskurslinguistik. Eine Einführung in Theorien und Methoden der transtextuellen Sprachanalyse. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Staffeldt, Sven, Hagemann Jörg (Hg.)(2014): Pragmatiktheorien I. Diskursanalysen im Vergleich. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
Staffeldt, Sven, Hagemann Jörg (Hg.)(2018): Pragmatiktheorien II. Diskursanalysen im Vergleich. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
Wrana, Daniel, Ziem, Alexander, Reisigl, Martin, Nonhoff, Martin, Angermuller, Johannes (eds.) (2014): DiskursNetz. Wörterbuch der interdisziplinären Diskursforschung. Berlin: Suhrkamp.

Association in the course directory

BA-M4
EC A168

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