For M 12/3, please read the following article, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website.
Searle, John R. 1979. Metaphor. In Andrew Ortony (ed.), Metaphor and Thought, 92-123. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reading for M 11/26: Searle 1975 (pgs. 59-74); Morgan 1978
For M 11/26, please read the following two articles, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website.
1. Searle, John R. 1975. Indirect speech acts. In Peter Cole and Jerry Morgan (eds.), Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 3: Speech Acts, 59-82. New York: Academic Press.
(Note: you are only required to read pgs. 59-74 of the Searle article.)
2. Morgan, Jerry L. 1978. Two types of convention in indirect speech acts. In Peter Cole (ed.), Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 9: Pragmatics, 261-280. New York: Academic Press..
Final Paper Topic Proposal due M 11/19
Remember that a one-page (or so) topic proposal for your final paper is due next Monday, 11/19.
The main goal of these proposals is to ensure that you’ve engaged in some preliminary thinking about your papers. Your proposals will also give me chance to supply whatever feedback that I can about your chosen topics, in the form of questions to think about, useful references to track down, etc.
In particular, there is no requirement that you have a “complete” understanding of your chosen topic, nor that your final paper even address the exact issues that you identify in your proposal. Rather, you should use this proposal as a chance to identify the general area that you would like to investigate further, as well as some initial thoughts about the specific course that these investigations might take.
Reading for M 11/19: Austin 1956; Sadock 1972
For M 11/19, please read the following two articles, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website.
1. 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.
2. Sadock, Jerrold M. 1972. Speech act idioms. In Paul M. Perenteau et al. (eds.), Papers from the Eight Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 329-339. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Reading Response #5: Fraser on pragmatic markers (due M 11/12)
Your fifth reading response assignment can be downloaded here:
Reading for M 11/12: Kim 2007; Fraser 1996, 2008, 2009
Next Monday, 11/12, we will begin with a group presentation of the following paper, to conclude our discussion of presupposition:
Kim, Christina. 2007. Processing presupposition: Verifying sentences with only. In Joshua Tauberer, Aviad Eliam and Laurel MacKenzie (eds.), Papers from Penn Linguistics Colloquium 31, 213-226. Philadelphia: Penn Working Papers in Linguistics
After the group presentation, we will hear our (re-scheduled) guest lecture from Prof. Bruce Fraser (SED), who will share with us his past and current research on pragmatic markers. He has kindly passed along the following three articles:
Fraser, Bruce. 1996. Pragmatic Markers. MS, Boston University.
Fraser, Bruce. 2008. Topic Orientation Markers. Journal of Pragmatics 41: 892-898.
Fraser, Bruce. 2009. An Account of Discourse Markers. International Review of Pragmatics 1: 293-320.
All of the above papers are now available from the “Readings” section of this website.
Homework 2 Answer Key available
I’ve put together an answer key for your second homework assignment, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website.
Reading Response #4: Stalnaker 1974 (due M 11/5)
Your (new) fourth reading response assignment can be downloaded here:
Reading for M 11/5: Stalnaker 1974; Lewis 1979 (pgs. 339-353)
For M 11/5, please read the following two articles, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website.
1. Stalnaker, Robert C. 1974. Pragmatic presuppositions. In Milton K. Munitz and Peter K. Unger (eds.), Semantics and Philosophy, 197-213. New York: New York University Press. (Reprinted in Stalnaker 1999, 47-62.)
2. Lewis, David. 1979. Scorekeeping in a language game. Journal of Philosophical Logic 8: 339-359.
(Note: For the Lewis paper, only pgs. 339-353 are required. If you are feeling adventurous, you can read through to the end of the paper, but the final pages introduce some complications that will not be relevant for our purposes.)
Update: Prof. Fraser’s guest lecture re-scheduled for Monday, November 12
Professor Fraser’s guest lecture on pragmatic markers, which was originally scheduled for Monday, October 29, has been re-scheduled for Monday, November 12. The required readings for his re-scheduled visit will remain the same, as will the reading response assignment. So, if you had already completed these in advance of our now-cancelled 10/29 class meeting, just hold on to your work for two more weeks…
Note: the group presentation of Kim 2007 that was originally scheduled for our 11/12 class meeting will still occur on that day.