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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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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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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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 …
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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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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.)
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.
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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