Linguistics 797P - ST- Formal Pragmatics

This course aims at modeling the role of the context of utterance in the construction of linguistic meaning; it does so by - but not exclusively by - exploring the relation between truth-conditional and non truth-conditional content. We elucidate the notions of speech acts, discourse and utterance, and we concentrate on a small number of phenomena: presupposition and non at-issue content, implicatures, focus and questions.