PS Introduction to Pragmatics

Course Outline

date topic reference
13/10/04Pragmatics, semantics, semiotics: an introductionMey 3-15
20/10/04Speech acts for DummiesMey 109-118, Searle in Davis (ed.) 254-264
27/10/04Deixis, indexicals, referring expressions Jaszczolt 191-206
03/11/04Implicature and presuppositionGreen 87-114, Thomas 55-84
10/11/04No class!
17/11/04No class!
24/11/04Syntax-pragmatics interfaceDelin in Verschueren (ed.) 113-131
01/12/04Semantics-pragmatics interfaceWierzbicka 12-24, Bach in Turner (ed.) 66-81
08/12/04Models of text production and comprehensionCutting, A2/B2/C2/D2
15/12/04Discourse markersFraser/Makowski in Jaszczolt/Turner (eds.) 863-881, Stenström in Jucker/Ziv (eds.) 127-144
05/01/05Mental models in discourseRickheit/Habel (eds.) (1999) Mental models in discourse processing and reasoning. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
12/01/05Phatic and conative interjectionsAmeka.The meaning of phatic and conative interjections. Journal of Pragmatics 18 (1992).
19/01/05Approximatives in EnglishWierzbicka. Precision in vagueness. The semantics of English approximatives. Journal of Pragmatics 10 (1986).
26/01/05Pragmatic particlesHolmes. Of Course. A Pragmatic Particle. Australian Journal of Linguistics 8 (1988).
02/02/05PolyloguesKerbrat-Orecchioni. Introducing polylogue Journal of Pragmatics 36 (2004).

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