Linguistics 497P - ST-Introduction to Pragmatics

We often mean more than we say and pragmatics is the field concerned with how we come to understand what speakers really mean. This class provides an introduction to the main topics in Pragmatics within Linguistics. Amongst other topics, we will explore presuppositions, implicatures, speech acts and information structure. In short, we will be concerned with the study of the meaning of natural language utterances in context as well as with how context enriches meaning.