The following schedule is subject to change. Readings listed in bold will be presented by students.
| Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M 9/10 | Course Overview: Meaning, Use & Context |
Potts 2007 | |
| 2 | M 9/17 | Reference I: Deixis, Anaphora & Indeterminacy |
Huang 2007: Ch. 5 (§5.3 is optional); Partee 1989: §1-4 |
Reading Response #1 |
| 3 | M 9/24 | Reference II: (In)definite NPs in Discourse |
Karttunen 1976; Haviland & Clark 1974 |
Problem Set #1 |
| 4 | M 10/1 | Conversational Implicature I: Sentence Meaning, Utterance Meaning & Grice’s Maxims |
Grice 1975; Geurts 2010: Ch. 2 |
Reading Response #2 |
| 5 | Tu 10/9 | Conversational Implicature II: Quantity Implicatures, Lexical Scales & Numerals |
Geurts 2010: Ch. 3; Papafragou & Musolino 2003 |
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| 6 | M 10/15 | Conversational Implicature III: Sentence Meaning vs. Utterance Meaning Revisited |
Sadock 1978; Carston 1988 (skip §5) |
Problem Set #2 |
| 7 | M 10/22 | Presupposition I: Diagnostics, Triggers & Projection |
Haung 2007: Ch. 3, 64-75; Karttunen 1973 (skip §8,10,11) |
Reading Response #3 |
| 8 | M 10/29 | Class Cancelled | ||
| 9 | M 11/5 | Presupposition II: Common Ground & Accommodation |
Stalnaker 1974; Lewis 1979: 339-353 |
Reading Response #4 |
| 10 | M 11/12 | Pragmatic Markers (guest lecture by Prof. Bruce Fraser) |
Kim 2007; Fraser 1996, 2008, 2009 |
Reading Response #5 |
| 11 | M 11/19 | Speech Acts I: Performatives; Direct vs. Indirect Speech Acts |
Austin 1956; Sadock 1972 |
Final Paper Proposal |
| 12 | M 11/26 | Speech Acts II: More on Indirect Speech Acts |
Searle 1975: 59-74; Morgan 1978 |
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| 13 | M 12/3 | Metaphorical Utterances |
Searle 1979 |
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| 14 | M 12/10 | Student Presentations | ||
| 15 | F 12/21 | Final Paper Due (@ noon) |