Pragmatics II

This course offers an introduction to pragmatic theory with an emphasis on relevance theory. Central topics are the relationship between semantics and pragmatics, the relationship between truth-functional and non-truth-functional content, the relationship between explicit and implicit communication and the relation between descriptive and interpretative language use.

The objective is to enable the students to read original literature on pragmatic topics and to base their work with the term paper on what they have read and understood.

Lectures and group instructions.
More on assessment: Obligatory exercises must be approved before students are allowed to take the take-home exam. The size of the exercises must be between 8-12 typed A4-pages each (line spacing 1.5).
The size of the take-home exam depends partly on the subject, but is usually between 8-15 typed A4-pages (line spacing 1.5).