Semantics & pragmatics

This year our reading group will focus on "Presuppositions, the Nature of Context and the Structure of Discourse".  We will be meeting on Wednesday 5pm-7pm (6pm-8pm when there is a Colloquium talk)

 

Readings: 

 

21/October/2014

Heim, Irene (1988), “On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions,” in M. Barlow, D. P. Flickinger, and M.T. Wescoat, eds., Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, vol. 2, Stanford Calif.: Stanford Linguistics Society, 114-125. (Reprinted in S. Davis (ed) Pragmatics, OUP, 1991)
Initial presentation: Josep Macià

 

5/November/2014

Stalnaker, R.: 1974, Pragmatic Presuppositions. In Munitz, M. and Unger, P. (eds.) Semantics and Philosophy. New York: New York University Press. Reprinted in Davis 1991. Also in Stalnaker, R. (1999). Context and Content.

Initial presentation: Johan Gebo

 

13/November/2014

Robert Stalnaker (2014), Context chapter 1

Initial presentation: Dirk Kindermann

 

27/November/2014 

Elizabeth Camp (2013)  "Insinuation, Inexplicitness, and the Conversational Record" ms.

Initial presentation: Mihaela Popa

 

3/December/2014

Robert Stalnaker (2014), Context, chapter 2

Initial presentation: Mar Alloza

 

 

 

 

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