Exam Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, February 19 / 12:30-2pm / CAS 324 (our usual classroom)

General Format & Guidelines: The exam will cover all of the material that we’ve looked at so far (see below for a list of topics).  The individual questions will very much resemble what you have encountered in your first three homework assignments, though the questions will be structured in order to ensure that you can attempt the entire exam in the allotted time.  (If you haven’t yet looked at the answer keys to the homework assignments, it would be a good idea to do so while studying for the exam.  I will post the answer key to your third homework assignment by the end of this Friday (Feb. 15) evening.)

Our entailment tests, Grice’s maxims, and the truth tables for our PropL connectives will not be provided to you, so you should have all of this information committed to memory.

Office Hours:  I will hold my regularly-scheduled office hours on this Friday, Feb. 15, from 11:30-1pm.  I will also hold additional office hours on Monday, Feb. 18, from 4-5:30pm.

Topics that we’ve covered this semester (use this list as a guide when studying):

Constructing a Theory of Meaning:  truth-conditional, compositional, and denotational theories of meaning; entailments and how to test for them

Literal Meaning vs. Utterance Meaning:  entailments vs. conversational implicatures; the Cooperative Principle, Grice’s maxims, and pragmatic reasoning; types of implicatures (e.g., scalar)

Propositional Logic:  translating between English & PropL; constructing truth tables for PropL formulas; semantic relations between sentences/formulas; understanding divergences between English & PropL