As you have undoubtedly heard by now, today’s Pragmatics class has been cancelled. Professor Fraser has graciously offered to visit our class at a later point during the semester–I am currently working with him to find a date that will work for both of our schedules. What this means is that your fourth reading response assignment …
Your fourth reading response assignment can be downloaded here: Reading Response: Fraser on pragmatic markers
As I announced in class, we will have a guest lecture from Prof. Bruce Fraser (SED) next Monday, 10/29. Prof. Fraser will share with us his past and current research on discourse markers. He has kindly passed along the following three articles, which should be read in advance of our next class meeting (they are …
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Your third reading response assignment can be downloaded here: Reading Response: Karttunen (1973)
For M 10/22, please read the following two items, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. 1. Huang, Yan. 2007. Pragmatics, Chap. 3 (‘Presupposition’), pgs. 64-75. 2. Karttunen, Lauri. 1973. Presuppositions of compound sentences. Linguistic Inquiry 4: 169-193. (Note: You should skip sections 8,10,11 of the Karttunen paper.)
Your second homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Monday, October 15, at the beginning of class. HW2 (due M 10/15 @ beg. of class)
For M 10/15, please read the following two articles, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. 1. Sadock, Jerrold M. 1978. On testing for conversational implicature. In Peter Cole (ed.), Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 9: Pragmatics, 281-297. New York: Academic Press. 2. Carston, Robyn. 1988. Implicature, explicature, and truth-theoretic semantics. In Ruth M. Kempson …
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For Tu 10/9, please complete the following two readings, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. 1. Geurts, Bart. 2010. Quantity Implicatures, Chap. 3 (‘Scalar Implicatures’) 2. Papafragou, Anna & Julien Musolino. 2003. Scalar implicatures: Experiments at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Cognition 86: 253-282.
Your second reading response assignment (as well as some background information regarding the Geurts chapter) can be downloaded here: Reading Response: Geurts 2010, Chap. 2
For M 10/1, please complete the following two readings, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. 1. Grice, Paul. 1975. Logic and conversation. In Peter Cole and Jerry Morgan (eds.), Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 3: Speech Acts, 41-58. New York: Academic Press. (Reprinted in Grice 1989, Studies in the Way of Words, 22-40.) 2. Geurts, …
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