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.
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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Your fifth reading response assignment can be downloaded here: Reading Response: Fraser on pragmatic markers
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 …
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