Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory
As taught in: Fall 2006
An example of an implicature. One explanation for the blocking of the inference of Addressee(2) is there is a known convention for letter writing: Write only good things. Learn more about implicatures in Lectures 1-8 in lecture notes. (Image courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Fox, and Prof. Menendez-Benito.)
Instructors:
Prof. Daniel Fox
Prof. Paula Menéndez-Benito
MIT Course Number:
24.954
Level:
Course Features
Course Description
The course introduces formal theories of context-dependency, presupposition, implicature, context-change, focus and topic. Special emphasis is on the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics. It also covers applications to the analysis of quantification, definiteness, presupposition projection, conditionals and modality, anaphora, questions and answers.
*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.
