This timetable is now final (barring disasters...).
Provisional essay deadlines, and some suggested essay questions.
| Date | Teacher | Place | Topic | Lecture notes / comments |
| 18.01.2011 | Nicholas Allott [NEA]? | GM 141 Lite seminarrom? | Introduction: How do we communicate?? | HandoutNotesReading: Sperber, D. (1995). How do we communicate? In J. Brockman & K. Matson (Eds.), How Things Are: A Science Toolkit to the Mind. (pp. 191–199). New York: W. Morrow. Available here? |
| 25.01.2011 | NEA? | ? | Meaning and intentions? | NotesHandoutReading: this week's main reading is the lecture notes? |
| 01.02.2011 | NEA? | ? | Implicatures, Maxims and the Cooperative Principle? | NotesHandoutReading: Grice, P. (1975). Logic and conversation. (Available in the CSMN copy room, also in Fronter.)? |
| 08.02.2011 | NEA? | ? | Cognition and communication: Introducing relevance theory? | NotesHandoutReading: Wilson & Sperber (2004) Relevance theory. Available via Dan Sperber's site and on Fronter.? |
| 15.02.2010 | Georg Kj?ll [GK]? | ? | The problem of linguistic underdeterminacy ? | Reading: Carston, R. (2002) - Thoughts and Utterances, pp. 15-42 (downloadable as sample chapter from publisher)? |
| 22.02.2011 | GK? | ? | A semantic approach to the problem of linguistic underdeterminacy ? | Reading: Stanley, Jason. 2000. 'Context and logical form' (up to section 3, pp. 391-409). Linguistics and Philosophy 23.Carston, Robyn. 2002. 'Post-script to chapter 2' (pp. 197-205). In Thoughts and Utterances.? |
| 01.03.2011 | Georg Kj?ll [GK]? | ? | Pragmatic enrichment and underdeterminacy ? | Reading: Carston, Robyn. 2004. Explicature and semantics In: S. Davis & B. Gillon (eds.) Semantics: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press.? |
| 08.03.2011 | Deirdre Wilson [DW] ? | ? | Pragmatics and mental architecture? | There is a handout here .? |
| 15.03.2011 | GK? | ? | Context and content in Relevance Theory ? | Reading: Sperber, Dan and Deirdre Wilson. 1995. Relevance: communication and cognition (2nd edition), pp. 132-142 (section 3.3-3.4) and 172-193 (section 4.1-4.3)? |
| 22.03.2011 | GK? | ? | TBA? | ? |
| 29.03.2011 | Astrid Nome? | ? | Procedural meaning? | Here are the slides? |
| 05.04.2011 | Ingrid Lossius Falkum [ILF]? | ? | Polysemy and the generative lexicon ? | Reading: Pustejovsky, J. 1991. The generative lexicon. Computational Lexical Semantics 17(4), pp. 409-441. Available hereOptional reading: Ravin, Y. & Leacock, C. 2000. Polysemy: An overview. In Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches, Ravin, J. & C. Leacock (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-29. (Both available in the CSMN copy room).? |
| 12.04.2011 | ILF? | ? | Polysemy and relevance-theoretic lexical pragmatics ? | Reading: Wilson, D. & Carston, R. 2007. A unitary approach to lexical pragmatics: relevance, inference and ad hoc concepts. In Pragmatics, Burton-Roberts, N. (ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 230-259. Available via Robyn Carston's webpageAdditional reading: Carston, R. Thoughts and Utterances, Chapter 5, pp. 320-375.? |
| 26.04.2011 | NEA? | ? | Round-up of the course? | Discussion of questions you have raised.? |