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LING-B415

Sémantique et pragmatique

academic year
2023-2024

Course teacher(s)

Philippe DE BRABANTER (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

This resolutely theoretical course offers an introduction to the main pragmatic proposals developed in the wake of the seminal contributions of Paul Grice, John Austin and John Searle.
The course also addresses the tricky issue of the semantics/pragmatics interface and touches upon the cognitive foundations of pragmatics.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Familiarising students with the main issues and proposals concerning the scientific analysis of linguistic communication.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures on the basic theoretical concepts + reading some of the pragmatics literature.
Now and then,exercises intended to familiarise students with some formal tools and demanding patterns of reasoning.

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

The reading material will be made available on the virtual university.

Course notes

  • Université virtuelle

Other information

Contacts

Philippe De Brabanter (Philippe.De.Brabanter@ulb.be)

Campus

Solbosch

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • written examination
  • Written report

written examination

  • Open question with developed answer
  • Open question with short answer

Written report

Language(s) of evaluation

  • french
  • (if applicable english )

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