LING 365. Pragmatics 1.

A self-contained hands-on introduction to the study of how the conventional meaning of sentences relates to the context where they are uttered. Topics include the studyof meanings that are determined with respect to the context of utterance (indexicality), meanings that place requirements on what language users take for granted (presuppositions), and meanings that are the result of predictable contextual inferences (implicatures). The focus is on empirical issues.