Language communication with elements of logic

(in Polish) przedmiot obowiązkowy

Contact hours with teacher:

- participation in lectures - 30 hrs

Self-study hours:

- preparation for lectures - 10 hrs

- reading literature - 10 hrs

- preparation for examination- 10 hrs

Altogether: 60 hrs (2 ECTS)

K_W01, The student has advanced knowledge of the language/ languages of a given cultural area as well as its/ their origin and development.

K_W06, The student has advanced knowledge of linguistics.

The student is able to analyse human communicative behaviours, both verbal and non-verbal (K_U06)

The student is able to apply semiotic and logical analysis to selected contexts (K_U19)

The graduate is aware of the level of their knowledge and skills and understands the need for constant learning and development of their skills. The graduate is able to inspire and coordinate the learning process of other persons (K_K01)

Lecture, discussion, analytic tasks, filling out work-sheets, Q&A sessions

K_W01, K_W06, K_U06, K_U19, K_K01

- display
- simulation (simulation games)

- informative (conventional) lecture
- participatory lecture

- project work

The goal of the course is to discuss a broad spectrum of problems pertaining to communication, viewed both in terms of linguistics and related disciplines. The course also gives an overview of logical analysis.

The selection of problems serves to highlight the connection between language domains and other semiotic systems as well as to define language as a form of social activity. The discussion of linguistic aspects of communication is complemented with an outline of theories of nonverbal communication. An additional goal of the course is to give an introduction to basic modes of logical analysis

• Approaches to the study of communication and definitions of communication

• Characterising linguistic communication – text and discourse, code model of communication and communicative functions of language:

• Language as a semiotic system

• The relations between structure vs. function in language.

• The semantics v. pragmatics distinction.

• Functions of language in various typologies.

• Textual criteria (constitutive principles).

• Conversation structure

• Inferential processes: Entailments, Presuppositions, Conversational Implicatures, Explicatures (and their practical applications)

• The Speech Act Theory (typology and felicity conditions).

• The Co-operation Principle and Conversational Maxims.

• The Relevance Theory.

• Theories regarding directness and politeness.

• Sentence logic

• Logical Equivalence, Logical Truths and Contradictions

The issue of "How the language of formal logic is different from natural language"

Together: 30 contact hours

SUGGESTED READING

Aitchison, Jean. 1995. Linguistics: An Introduction. London: Edward Arnold.

Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language. Cambridge: The University Press.

Levinson, Stephen C. 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lyons, John. 1977. Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Teller, Paul. 19898. A Modern Formal Logic Primer. London: Pearson Education. https://tellerprimer.sf.ucdavis.edu/logic-primer-files

Thomas, Jenny. 1995. Meaning in Interaction.

Yule, George. 2014. The Study of Language (5th edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Optional texts:

Eelen, Gino. 2001. A Critique of Politeness Theories. Manchester: St. Jerome.

Jaworski, Adam and Nikolas Coupland (eds.) 2008. The Discourse Reader. London: Routledge.

http://plato.stanford.edu/

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/

Exam (100%)

Very good – 91-100% (5.0)

Good plus – 86-90% (4+)

Good – 76-85% (4.0)

Satisfactory plus – 70-75% (3+)

Satisfactory – 60-69% (3.0)

Fail – 0-59% (2)

K_W01, K_W06, K_U06, K_U19, K_K01

N/A