Séminaire de linguistique
Master Langues, littératures et civilisations étrangères et régionalesParcours Études anglophones
Description
This course investigates a selection of theories that have endeavoured each in a different way to lay bare how power games are an inherent part, if not the very essence, of language. These theories cover various aspects of language, among which semantic and syntactic presuppositions, rhetoric, pragmatics and argumentation. In the second half of the course, emphasis will be put on information pacakaging and non-canoncial consitituent order. The questions that we shall try to answer are the following: how does social interaction influence linguistic options? How do we interact with our own language? Is power gained by using language efficiently or creatively? By stating things or leaving them implicit? Does language reflect our social interactions or does it shape them?
Compétences visées
Acquérir les connaissances de base pour l'analyse de la structure informationnelle Échanger, débattre en groupe
- Présenter un travail à l’oral et à l’écrit de façon structurée
Modalités d'organisation et de suivi
The seminar will be organized as a workshop where individual presentations will be obligatory. Certain sessions or parts of sessions will be organized on the line of a lecture.
Disciplines
- Études anglophones
Informations complémentaires
Stéphane Kostantzer : skostant@unistra.fr
Bibliographie
Brown, Penelope and Stephen Levinson. Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.
Giles, Howard, et al. "Accommodation theory: communication, context and consequence." In H. Giles, N. Coupland and J. Coupland (eds), Contexts of Accommodation: Development in Applied Sociolinguistics. Paris: Maison des Sciences de l’homme (1991): 1-68.
Grice, Herbert Paul. Studies in the Way of Words. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 1989.
Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Catherine. Le Discours en interaction. Paris : Armand Colin, 2005.
Viktorovitch Clément. Le Pouvoir rhétorique. Apprendre à convaincre et à décrypter les discours. Paris : Editions du Seuil, 2021.