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.
For this Wednesday and Friday, please read pgs. 28-38 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:  the downloadable PDF comprises all of Chapter 2.  We will be reading …
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In today’s class, I distributed some possible topics for your second paper, which will be due on Thursday, March 10. Â In case you missed class today, here are those topics: Topics for Paper #2 (due Th 3/10 by email or delivered to my office)
For next Monday 2/28, please read the following book chapters, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. Solan, Lawrence M. 1993. The Language of Judges, Introduction (‘Judging Language’) and Chapter 1 (‘Chomsky and Cardozo: Linguistics and the Law’). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Here are the slides from Prof. O’Connor’s guest lecture on language revitalization: Slides fr. Prof. O’Connor’s guest lecture on language revitalization
For this week’s class meetings, please read the following two articles, both of which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: McCloskey, James. 2007. Irish as a world language. In Why Irish?, B. Conchubhar and B. Buachalla (eds). Syracuse: Arlen House / Syracuse University Press. Zepeda, Ofelia & Jane H. Hill. 1991. The …
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