Questions and Tasks:

1. Identify the purpose of the functional sentence perspective.

2. What are the main components of the functional sentence perspective?

3. Name the formal means of expressing the distinction between the theme and the rheme and give a short characteristic of each means given.

4. What is topicalisation?

5. Disclose the connection between the FSP and the communicative sentence types.

a) What is FSP pattern typical of declarative sentence?

b) What is FSP pattern typical of imperative sentence?

c) What kind of rheme is peculiar to the interrogative sentence?

References:

1. Блох, М.Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка : учебник / М.Я. Блох. – 4-е изд., испр. – M. : Высш. шк., 2003. – С. 263-271.

2. Блох, М.Я. Практикум по теоретической грамматике английского языка : учебное пособие / М.Я. Блох, Т.Н. Семенова, С.В. Тимофеева. – M. : Высш. шк., 2004. – P. 267-308.

3. Гуревич, В.В. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка / В.В. Гуревич. – М. : МПГУ, 2001. – С. 59-69.

4. Слюсарева Н.А. Проблемы функционального синтаксиса современного английского языка. / Н.А. Слюсарева. – М.: Наука, 1981. – 208 с.

5. Шевякова, В.Е. Современный английский язык (порядок слов, актуальное членение, интонация) / В.Е. Шевякова. – М. : Наука, 1976. – 380 с.

6. Graustein, G., English Grammar. A University Handbook / G. Graustein, A. Hoffmann, M. Schentke. – Leipzig : VEB Verlag Enzyklopaedie, 1997. – P. 40-49.

Seminar 15. Pragmatics of the sentence Plan

1. The concern of pragmatics and its difference from that of semantics.

2. Reference force and effect. Proposition: illocution. Illocutionary force, perlocutionary effect – the basic notions of pragmatics.

3. A speech event and a speech act. Schema. A cooperative principle as the main condition of success of communication.

4. Performatives and Constatives.

5. Relations between utterances.

Questions and Tasks:

1. What is pragmatics concerned with?

2. What is the difference between syntax, semantics and pragmatics?

3. What is the advantage and disadvantage of studying language via pragmatics?

4. What is a speech act?

5. Name the three related acts the action performed by producing an utterance, consist of.

6. What is the most obvious device for indicating the illocutionary force of the utterance?

7. Name the five types of general functions performed by speech acts.

8. Speak about Direct and Indirect Speech acts.

References:

1. Никитин М.В. Курс лексической семантики: Учебное пособие к курсам языкознания, лексикологии и теоретической грамматики. / М.В. Никитин. – СПб.: Научный центр проблем диалога, 1996. – С. 619-753.

2. Jule, George. Pragmatics. // Oxford Introductions to Language Study. Series Editor H. Y. Widdowson. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. – 138 с.

3. Widdowson H. Y. Linguistics. // Oxford Introductions to Language Study. Series Editor H. Y. Widdowson. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. – С. 61-68.

SEMINAR 16. TEXT AND DISCOURSE

Plan

1. The nature of text.

1. Text type or genre and style.

2. Text type and function.

2. The nature of discourse.

1. Textual and contextual meaning.

2. The context and its components.

The context of literary discourse.

The communicative situation in literary discourse.

Questions and Tasks:

1. What is a ‘communicative triangle’?

2. What are the intrinsic linguistic properties of the text?

3. What is discourse?

4. What is style in language? What does concept of style involve?

5. How is a genre or a text type defined?

6. Give the definition of a context.

7. Name the characteristic features of linguistic context.

8. Name the typical features of non-linguistic context.

References:

1. Александрова О.В., Комова Т.А. Современный английский язык. Морфология и синтаксис. = Modern English Grammar: Morphology and Syntax: учеб. пособие. / О.В. Александрова, Т.А. Комова. – М.: ИЦ «Академия», 2007. – С. 138-140; 173-174.

2. Прохоров Ю.Е. Действительность. Текст. Дискурс: Учеб. пособие. – 2-е изд. испр. / Ю.Е. Прохоров. – М.: Флинта. Наука, 2006. – С. 9-72.

3. Blackmore, D. Understanding utterances. An introduction to pragmatics. / Diane Blackmore. – (Blackwell textbooks in linguistics: 6) – Padstow, Cornwall: T. J. International Ltd., 2003. – P. 134-154.

4. Verdonk, Peter. Stylistics // Oxford Introductions to Language Study. / Series Editor H. Y. Widdowson. – Oxford University Press, 2003. – P. 17-27.