- Docente: Gabriele Bersani Berselli
- Credits: 5
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Course contents
Applied Linguistics (40 hours, Prof. Gabriele Bersani Berselli): Introduction to pragmatics: Literal vs. Speaker Meaning; Grice's Cooperation Principle and Conversational Maxims; Conversational implicatures; Presuppositions; Speech Acts Theory: Austin, Searle. Introduction to applied linguistics: fields of research and application; language use in context; language as social action; Analysing spoken discourse: text.
Readings/Bibliography
Course materials consist in a series of articles which will be discussed during lectures.
Teaching methods
Lectures and group work.
Assessment methods
Applied Linguistics: At the end of the module there will be examination on the contents of the module and the associated readings. The examination will take the form of a two-hour written paper.
Office hours
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