Monolingual/Bilingual Pragmatic Ability

The course starts with the presentation of the central concepts in the study of pragmatics, such as context, utterance, speech act, cooperative principle, implicature and deixis. Next, we investigate speech analysis, mainly conversation analysis and critical speech analysis (particularly of child narrative) on particular examples from the Greek language. The main aim is to raise students’ awareness of how communicative competence can help organize and use language more successfully in various social settings and contexts and how they can help preschool children develop it. Special attention is paid to language learning/use strategies in L1 and L2 and how teachers can help their students become autonomous and self-regulated learners starting from preschool.
Sections of the course:
1. Deixis
2. Speech acts
3. Implicature
4. Speech analysis principles
5. Conversation analysis
6. Child speech
7. Child narration
8. Child speech corpora
9. Pragmatic ability of bilingual children
10. Language learning/use strategies in L1 and L2
11. Teaching language learning strategies in preschool
12. Assessment of pragmatic linguistic functions of monolingual/bilingual children
13. Presentation of projects