Learning outcomes

To see contrastive pragmatics as a part of contrastive linguistic study interested in language usage in context and in rules and their linguistic and cultural differences related to language usage; to apply pragmatic approaches to contrastive analysis.

Contents

Pragmatics as a linguistic sector; central concepts and approaches (e.g. different theories of function and compliment); examples of applying them to contrasting Finnish and German.

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
Evaluation by assignments done during the course. Written exam or final project.

Study materials

Oksaar, E., Kulturemtheorie. 1988.

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