Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books:

  • Paul Elbourne 2011, Meaning: A slim guide to semantics (Oxford)

A compendium of the following chapters:

  • H.P. Grice: "Logic and Conversation", chapter 2 in Studies in the Way of Words 1989 pp. 22-40
  • J.L. Austin: "How to do things with words", chapter 2 in Coupland, N. and Jaworski, A. (eds) 2006: The Discourse Reader
  • Brown, P. and Levinson, S: "Politeness", chapter 19 in Coupland, N. and Jaworski, A. (eds) 2006: The Discourse Reader

Articles and chapters available on Fronter:

  • Saeed, John: "Word meaning". Chapter 3 in Semantics, Blackwell, 2nd edition. Pp 53-85
  • Wilson, Deirdre. 2009. "Relevance Theory", in L. Cummings (ed): The Pragmatics Encyclopedia, London (pp 393-399)
  • Wilson, Deirdre. 2006. "The Pragmatics of Verbal irony: Echo or Pretence?", in Lingua 116 (10) 1722-1743

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