Linguistics 490STA - 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. 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. We will explore the main topics in the current literature in pragmatics as a discipline within linguistics with the goal of understanding the complexities involved in the construction of meaning and the theoretical proposals made to capture them.

Pre Req: LINGUIST 201