Interlanguage Pragmatics

Recommended Prerequisites

Level C1 in Portuguese is a prerequisite for all courses in the program.

Teaching Methods

The flipped classroom model of b-learning which recommends the early availability of resources (videos, texts, theoretical materials) to students, in the learning management system (LMS), for prior and autonomous preparation of the topics, is combined with discussions and tasks of an interactive nature (with the teacher and peers), as well as with empirical data treatment in synchronous sessions.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing the course unit, the student is expected to:

1. General competencies:

- be able to define, with supervision, adequate research goals;

- be capable of selecting, with autonomy, reliable and relevant information in the light of the research goals previously defined;

- plan, write and present an essay/report on the research carried out.

2. Specific Competencies:

a) master basic concepts explored in the syllabus;

b) recognize the existence of pragmatic problems in intercultural communication;

c) correlate different linguistic structures of Portuguese with different communicative objectives and different social contexts;

d) identify discursive strategies of politeness in Portuguese, both in forms of address and in indirect acts;

e) recognize the relevance of interactional competence in intercultural communication;

f) know methodologies for collecting and analyzing pragmatic data;

g) critically discuss theoretical and methodological issues of Interlinguage Pragmatics.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Interlinguage Pragmatics - at the interface between Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition

2. The concept of pragmatic competence

3. Interlinguage pragmatics – some topics

  a) Social deixis. Forms of address in Portuguese

  b) Speech acts

  c) Politeness – the notion of face

  d) The organization of discourse

4. Research methodologies in Interlinguage Pragmatics.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 40.0%
Research work: 60.0%

Bibliography

Attardo, S. & Pickering, L. (2021). Pragmatics and its Applications to TESOL and SLA. Wiley Blackwell.

Culpeper, J. et al. (2018). Second Language Pragmatics. From Theory to Research. Routledge.

House, J. & Kádár, D. Z. (2021). Cross-Cultural Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press.

Ilie, C. & Norrick N. R. (Eds.), (2018). Pragmatics and its Interfaces. John Benjamins.

Lopes, Ana C. M. (2018). Pragmática. Uma introdução. Coimbra: IUC.

Ren, W. (2022). Second Language Pragmatics. Elements in Applied Linguistics.Cambridge University Press.

Taguchi, N. (Ed.), (2019). The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics. Routledge.