School of Humanities Professor Carita Paradis Autumn semester 2006

Pragmatics
Graduate course (5 credits)

Aims
This course serves to: to provide a picture of the domain of pragmatics as a field of linguistic inquiry to present the central topics of inquiry: implicature, presupposition, deixis and reference to introduce different approaches to pragmatics: the Gricean and the Neo-Gricean approach, Speech Act Theory, Relevance Theory and Cognitive Linguistics

Theoretical contents
Fundamentals, implicature and presupposition. Conventional and conversational implicature Deixis, reference, definiteness/indefiniteness and speech acts Relevance theory Pragmatics and its interfaces (i) (ii) (iii) Pragmatics and cognition, Pragmatics and semantics Pragmatics and syntax

Examination
Oral presentations Written assignments

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Course literature (selection)

Abbott, B. 2004. Definiteness and indefiniteness. The handbook of pragmatics, ed. by L. Horn & G. Ward. Oxford: Blackwell. Atlas, J. 2004. Presupposition. The handbook of pragmatics, ed. by L. Horn & G. Ward. Oxford: Blackwell. Austin, J. L. 1962. How to do things with words. Oxford: Clarendon. Blakemore, D. 1992 Understanding Utterances. Oxford: Blackwell. Blakemore, D. 2002. Relevance and linguistic meaning: the semantics and pragmatics of discourse markers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Carlson, G. 2004. Reference. The handbook of pragmatics, ed. by L. Horn & G. Ward. Oxford: Blackwell. Carston, Robyn 2002. Thoughts and utterances. Oxford: Blackwell Gibbs, R. 1999. Speaking and thinking with metonymy. Metonymy in language and thought, ed. by K-U Panther & G. Radden. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Gibbs, R. & M. Tendahl. 2006. Cognitive effort and effects in metaphor comprehension: relevance theory and psycholinguistics. Mind & language 21.3.379-403. Giora, R. 2003. On our mind: salience, context and figurative language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Glucksberg, S. 2003. The psycholinguistics of metaphor. Trends in Cognitive Science 7.2.92-96. Grice, H. P. 1975. Logic and conversation. Syntax and semantics 3, ed. by P. Cole & J. Morgan. New York: Academic press. Huang, Y. 2006. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Horn, L. 2004. Implicature. The handbook of pragmatics, ed. by L. Horn & G. Ward. Oxford: Blackwell. Horn, L. & G. Ward (eds.). 2004. The handbook of pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell. Levinson, S. 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Levinson, S. Presumptive meanings. the theory of generalized conversational implicature. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press. Panther, K-U & L. Thornburg (eds.) 2003. Pragmatic inferencing in metonymy. Introduction. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Panther K-U & Linda Thornburg (eds.)2003. Metonymy and pragmatic inferencing. Amsterdam & Philadelphia. John Benjamins. Searle, J. 1979. Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Searle, J. 1975. Indirect Speech Acts. Syntax and semantics 3, ed. by P. Cole & J. Morgan. New York: Academic Press. Sperber, D & D. Wilson. 1995 (1986). Relevance: communication & cognition. Oxford: Blackwell. Verscheuren, J. 1998. Understanding pragmatics. London: Arnold. Wilson, D. & R. Carston. 2006. Metaphor, relevance and the Emergent property issue. Mind & language 21.3.404-434. Wilson, D. & D. Sperber. 2004. Relevance Theory. The handbook of pragmatics, ed. by L. Horn & G. Ward. Oxford: Blackwell.

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