PRAGMATICS

Background in general linguistics and semantics

Student assessment will be based on final written exam including short excersises and extended answer questions.

Required readings: Huang, Y. (2007). Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Yule, G. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Week 1: What is pragmatics? Optional readings: Blakemore, D. (1992). Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics, pp. 3-23. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Mey, J. L. (2001). Pragmatics: An Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell. Chapters 1-2. Thomas, J. A. (1995). Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics, pp. 1-23. Harlow: Longman. Week 2: Deixis and reference Optional readings: Hanks, W. (1992). The indexical ground of deictic reference. In A. Duranti and C. Goodwin (Εds.), Rethinking Context, pp. 43-76. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fillmore, C. J. 1997. Lectures on deixis. Stanford: CSLI. Levinson, S. C. (2004). Deixis. In L. Horn and G. Ward (Eds.), The Handbook of Pragmatics, pp. 97-121. Oxford: Blackwell. Week 3: Presupposition Optional readings: Atlas J. D. (2004). Presupposition. In L. Horn and G. Ward (Eds.), The Handbook of Pragmatics, pp. 29-52. Oxford: Blackwell. Green, G. M. (1996). Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding, pp. 72-86. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Levinson, S. C. (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 4. Week 4: Implicature I Optional readings: Grice, H. P. (1989). Studies in the Ways of Words. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Part I and Retrospective Epilogue. Horn, L. C. (2004). Implicature. In L. Horn and G. Ward (Eds.), The Handbook of Pragmatics, pp. 3-28. Oxford: Blackwell. Levinson, S. C. (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 3. Week 5: Implicature II Optional readings: Horn, L. C. (1984). Toward a new taxonomy for pragmatic inference: Q-based and R-based implicature. In D. Schiffrin (Ed.), Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications, pp. 11-42. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Levinson, S. C. (1995). Three levels of meaning. In F. R. Palmer (Ed.), Grammar and Meaning: Essays in Honour of SIR JOHN LYONS, pp. 90-115. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Levinson, S. C. (2000). Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapters 1, 2. Week 6: Pragmatics and cognition: Relevance Theory Optional readings: Wilson, D. and Sperber, D. (2004). Relevance theory. In L. Horn and G. Ward (Eds.), The Handbook of Pragmatics, pp. 607-632. Oxford: Blackwell. Week 7: Speech acts I Optional readings: Austin, J. L. (1962). How to Do Things with Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sadock, J. (2004). Speech acts. In L. Horn and G. Ward (Eds.), The Handbook of Pragmatics, pp. 53-73. Oxford: Blackwell. Sbisà, M. (1995). Speech act theory. In J. Verschueren, J.-A. Oestman, and J. Blommaert (Eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics, pp. 495-505. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Searle, J. R. (1979). A taxonomy of illocutionary acts. In J. Searle, Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts, pp. 1-29. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Week 8: Speech acts II: Politeness Optional readings: Brown, P. and Levinson, S. C. (1987). Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1, 2. Searle, J. (1979). Indirect speech acts. In J. Searle, Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts, pp. 30-57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Week 9: Conversation analysis I Optional readings Hutchby, I. and R. Wooffitt. (1997). Conversation Analysis. Cambridge: Polity Press. Chapter 1. Nofsinger, E. (1990). Everyday Conversation. Sage. Chapters 1, 2. Week 10: Conversation analysis II Optional readings: Hutchby, I. and R. Wooffitt. (1997). Conversation Analysis. Cambridge: Polity Press. Chapters 2, 3. Nofsinger, E. (1990). Everyday Conversation. Sage. Chapters 3, 4. Week 11: Discourse markers Optional readings: Heritage, J. (1984). A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement. In J. Atkinson and J. Heritage (Eds.), Structures of Social Action, pp. 299-335. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Schiffrin, D. (1985). Conversational coherence: The role of well. Language 61(3): 640-667. Schiffrin, D. (2003). Discourse markers: Language, Meaning and Context. In D. Schiffrin, D. Tannen and H. Hamilton (Eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, pp. 54-75. Wiley-Blackwell. Week 12 Gender and pragmatics Optional readings: Eckert, P. and S. McConnell-Ginet. (2003). Language and Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 4, 6, 7. Week 13: Intercultural pragmatics Optional readings: Wierzbicka, A. (1985). Different cultures, different languages, different speech acts. Journal of Pragmatics 9: 145-78.