LINGUIST 724
Semantics and Pragmatics
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for LINGUIST 724.
Description
This course deals with a wide range of issues in semantics and especially pragmatics. Topics may include the domain of pragmatics, implicature (both conversational and conventional), presupposition, speech act, deixis, reference, pragmatics and cognition (focusing on relevance theory), pragmatics and semantics and pragmatics and syntax (with special reference to Chomsky’s anaphora and binding theory). There are two versions of this course, A and B, depending on students’ previous knowledge status of the subject. Version B is more advanced than Version A.
Availability 2017
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Professor Yan Huang
Points
LINGUIST 724: 15 points
Prerequisites
LINGUIST 206 or 302, or equivalent
