Cuny Pragmatics

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Ling U797 -- Pragmatics T 2.00-4.00pm
Professor Robert Fiengo
This course is a general introduction to the issues involved in the use of language, as this interacts with syntax and semantics. Prominent in discussion will be speech act theory, as developed by Austin, Searle, and others; more specific areas of interest will included presupposition, the deictic use of linguistic expressions, and issues surrounding anaphora. It is assumed that the student will have some syntax and/or semantics background.

Readings will include

Stephen C. Levinson, Pragmatics, Cambridge University Press:

Pragmatics ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
Stephen C. Levinson / Paperback / Published 1983.
Note: This title is on the first exam reading list for sociolinguistics.

Steven Davis, Pragmatics: A Reader, Oxford University Press:
Pragmatics : A Reader ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Steven Davis / Paperback / Published 1991.
Note: This title is on the first exam reading list for sociolinguistics.

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Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding (Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science) Georgia M. Green / Paperback / Published 1996
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Note: This title is on the first exam reading list for sociolinguistics.

Relevance : Communication and Cognition ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
Dan Sperber, et al / Paperback / Published 1995
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How to Do Things With Words ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
J. L. Austin, et al / Paperback / Published 1975
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Philosophical Investigations ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe / Paperback / Published 1973
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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series, No 8) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
M. M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist / Paperback / Published 1990
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Marxism and the Philosophy of Language ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
V. N. Volosinov, V. N. Volos / Paperback / Published 1986
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Discourse Strategies
John J. Gumperz / Paperback / Published 1982
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The Sociolinguistics of Language (Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Vol 2) ~ Ships in 2-3 days
Ralph W. Fasold / Paperback / Published 1990
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