24.954 | Spring 2010 | Graduate

Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory

Course Description

This course is the third and final part of our graduate introduction to semantics. The other two classes are 24.970 Introduction to Semantics and 24.973 Advanced Semantics. The semester will be divided into somewhat independent units. One unit will be devoted to conversational implicatures (mainly scalar …
This course is the third and final part of our graduate introduction to semantics. The other two classes are 24.970 Introduction to Semantics and 24.973 Advanced Semantics. The semester will be divided into somewhat independent units. One unit will be devoted to conversational implicatures (mainly scalar implicatures) and another to presupposition. In each unit, we will discuss basic concepts and technical tools and then devote some time to recent work which illustrates their application.

Course Info

Learning Resource Types
Lecture Notes
Written Assignments
Image of a boy with glasses reading a book.
The first two lectures discuss generalizations, inferences, and implicatures of the statement “John did some of the homework.” (This image is in the public domain.)