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 may very well have already downloaded/printed this chapter.)

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 some more from this chapter next week, and I’ve provided the remaining pages for completeness.  But if you’re looking to save some money on your printing costs, then be sure not to print the whole document.)

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.

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 condition of Native American languages in the United States. Diogenes 153: 45-65.

Both readings describe efforts to revitalize endangered languages (in Ireland and the United States, respectively), as well as the sorts of difficulties that such efforts often encounter.

Note: the McCloskey article repeatedly refers to the Irish Gaeltacht communities. These are districts in Ireland where the government has officially recognized that Irish is the predominant language (i.e., the language spoken at home).