2-IKV-181 Meaning and Communication
Evaluation during the course: test, essay
Concluding evaluation: test
Brief curriculum of the subject:
- Logical
analysis and analysis of language practices – two rival approaches?
- Meaning
of an expression as its use (usage)
- J. L.
Austin about meaning; meanings of „meaning“ by Austin performatives versus
constatives
- Speech
act as the basic unit of communication
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Performative and constative utterances
- Taxonomy
of speech acts and its criteria
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Locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary aspects of a speech act
(discussion: Strawson – Austin - Searle)
- Referring
as a speech act
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Applications of the speech acts theory
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Elaboration of the speech acts theory byRozpracovanie teórie rečových aktov v
prácach J. Searla, štruktúra ilokučných aktov
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Psychological theories of meaning; H. P. Grice – sentence meaning and utterer’s
meaning
- Logic and
conversation; conversational „implicatures“
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Conversational maxims
Literature:
Austin, J. L.: Ako niečo robiť slovami, Kalligram, Bratislava
2004
Grice, H. P.: Studies in the Way of
Words, Harvard University Press 1991
Koťátko, P.: Význam
a komunikace, Filosofia, Praha, 1998
Searle, J. R.: Rečové akty,
Kalligram, Bratislava 2006
Language in which the subject is
taught: Slovak
Date of the last sheet revision: 29. 6. 2007