B005387 - SEMANTICS AND LEXICOLOGY

Italian

Foundation of the speech act notion in the philosophy of ordinary language
Models for speech act classification
Indirect speech acts and the logc of conversation
Speech act analysis in spontaneous speech corpora and prosody

.Austin J.L. 1962,How to do things with words
Sbisà M. Gi atti linguistici, Feltrinelli
Weisser, Martin. 2018. How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data: Speech Acts and Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Cresti E. (forthcoming) The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to Language into Act Theory

TThe course aims to provide the knowledge and understanding of the main notions of speech act theory, also in the perspective of applying the acquired knowledge within broader contexts, and developing new ideas within research contexts and in interdisciplinary perspective. The knowledge objectives regard, more specifically, the acquisition of the theoretical tools for the philosophical and cognitive analisys of the pragmatics in ordinary language usage, and the capacity to identify abstract language properties in natural language data.
Among the course objectives, there are also the acquisition of the abilities to communicate in a clear way the acquired knowledge, and to develop integrated learning abilities that allow the student to formulate autonomous judgements and to deal with complex issues in the linguistic field.
The extra-disciplinary goal of the course is to stimulate students to develop: (a) an informed use of the academic environment, of the CdS, of the assistance facilities for managing the student careers; (b) a conscious participation and an effective student-teacher collaboration; (c) an aware use of the learning resources provided by both CdS and Scuola.

Basic knowledge of general linguistics.

Face to face lessons.
Exercises of corpus analysis

The slides of the course will be available.

The examination will be oral for all students.
The examination will consist of at least three questions on the different sections of the course, in order to cover all the topics addressed during the lessons. In the examination, students may be asked to analyse materials and exercises discussed during the class, specifically regarding corpus analysis.
Students need to demonstrate a sufficient knowledge of all parts of the program in order to pass the examination. Moreover, the examiners will also assess the communication skills of the students as well as their ability to establish connections among the different topics and to re-elaborate the knowledge acquired during the course in an autonomous way. The final mark will consist of the average mark obtained in the different sections.
In brief, the examination aims to assess: (a) the knowledge of the theoretical and philosophical foundations of pragmatic analysis ; (b) the knowledge of the main methods for classifying speech acts (c) the ability to identify abstract language properties in natural language data.

1) Foundation of the speech act notion in the philosophy of ordinary language from its origin in How to do things with words: the notions of “performative”; “primitive speech act”, “Illocutionary and perlocutionary acts”
2) Models for speech act classification: Searle Paradigm and its extensions: Directives; Representatives; Expressives; Declarations
3)Indirect speech acts and the logc of conversation: Classic contributions by Serle, Grice & Sperberg and Willson
4) Speech act analysis in spontaneous speech corpora and prosody: essential notions for prosodic analysis; models for the induction of illocutionary types from spontaneous speech and Corpus Based classifications