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LGCS107 PO - Pragmatics

When Offered: Last offered fall 2012.
Instructor(s): Staff
Credit: 1

How to do things with words. A philosophical and linguistic discussion of language use and non-truth-conditional aspects of meaning. Topics from philosophy of language and linguistics: speech acts, presupposition, conversational implicature, context and common ground, demonstratives and indexicals, topic/comment and focus, with applications to law and to psychology. Prerequisite: LGCS 010 PO .



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