LINGUIST 320
Topics in Pragmatics
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for LINGUIST 320.
Description
Pragmatics - the systematic study of language use in context - is a rapidly developing discipline in linguistics and the philosophy of language. This series of lectures continues to provide an introduction to the central topics in pragmatics. Among the issues to be dealt with in individual lectures may include presupposition, deixis, reference, pragmatics and cognition, especially relevance theory, pragmatics and semantics, and pragmatics and Chomsky’s formal syntax, focusing on binding and anaphora.
Availability 2017
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Professor Yan Huang
Reading/Texts
Huang, Y. (2014). Pragmatics. (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics). 2nd ed. Oxford University Press
A pragmatics reading list will be provided
Points
LINGUIST 320: 15 points
Prerequisites
LINGUIST 206