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..