For this Friday’s class, please read the following article, which can be downloaded from the “Readings†section of this website: Austin, John L. 1956/1961. Performative utterances. In J.O. Urmson and G.J. Warnock (eds), J.L. Austin: Philosophical Papers, 233-252. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
For this Friday 3/25 and next Monday 3/28, please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. Solan, Lawrence M. & Peter M. Tiersma. 2005. Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice, Chap. 11 (‘Perjury’). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
For Monday 3/21 and Wednesday 3/23, please read pgs. 208-235 of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. Devlin, Keith. 1997. Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind, Chapter 9 (‘Verbal Tangoes’).  New York: J. Wiley & Sons.
For this Wednesday, please read pgs. 38-45 of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. Solan, Lawrence M. 1993. The Language of Judges, Chapter 2 (‘The Judge as Linguist’). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Note that we already read pgs. 28-38 of this chapter for last week.  So you …
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For next Monday 3/7, please read pgs. 64-76 of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. Solan, Lawrence M. 1993. The Language of Judges, Chapter 3 (‘Stacking the Deck’). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.