Dates of
Sessions
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Issues / Topics
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(#1)
16.04.2010
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Preliminaries and Introduction
Course Guide
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(#2)
23.04.2010
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FUNDAMENTALS | Text: Huang (2007: v-19) + Ex. 1.
Do not be distracted by Huang's discussion of so-called binding phenomena. Just cursorily read pp. 8-10.
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(#3)
30.04.2010
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IMPLICATURE I | Text: Huang (2007: 22-35) + Ex. 1, 2.
- Additional: Yule (1996: 35-46), Levinson (1983: 97-118)
Since the text includes some non-English examples, do not worry too much about them. Fn. 10 and 12 are not relevant. They are not too many pages, but with this we introduce canonical pragmatic thinking via Paul Grice's theory.
Presentation: Sean Heron | Memo: Petra Andary, Sophie Le Boulanger | Supplement 2
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(#4)
07.05.2010
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IMPLICATURE II | Text: Huang (2007: 36-54) + Ex. 8, 10.
Two thinkers will be dealt with: Laurence Horn and Stephen Levinson. The many examples on pp. 47-49 should not all be dealt with. Implicature interaction is interesting but not essential.
Presentation: Elisabeth Doehne, Nina Schneider | Memo: Erich Rasimus
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(#5)
14.05.2010
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IMPLICATURE III | Text: Huang (2007: 54-63) + Ex. 14.
Only a short text, but at the end of session we ought to round up what we have learned about implicatures. We will spare out Levinson's (I) and (M) implicatures. Presentation of this is shifted. From an empirical point of view, I would like to check the universality of conventional implicatures.
Memo: Carolin Haas, Friederike Fleige | Supplement 3
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(#6)
21.05.2010
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PRESUPPOSITION I | Text: Huang (2007: 64-75) + Ex. 1, 2.
- Additional: Yule (1996: 25-34), Levinson (1983: 167-225)
Presentation: Haykuhi Jaghinyan, Ludmila Natcheva | Memo: Nicole Hoffstaetter, Renate Brunner
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(#7)
28.05.2010
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PRESUPPOSITION II | Text: Huang (2007: 75-92) + Ex. 3.
We will have a look at three contemporary approaches to presuppositions. We will see where the theories work and where they possibly don't work. Plus: Levinson's theory of implicatures.
Memo: Haykuhi Jaghinyan, Ludmila Natcheva, Sean Heron | Supplement 4
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(#8)
04.06.2010
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PROJECT WEEK - From 31.05.2010 till 06.06.2010. Since it is up to us what we will be doing in this week, I propose the following:
- We should be closely reading one of the most prominent key texts in pragmatics. This will be Paul Grice's Logic and Conversation (Grice 1975). We will be reading this seminal paper in class nearly word for word. So you need not prepare it at home. We will be looking at some reading strategies that may help us to deal with primary literature. It is a seventeen-page paper, so we should be able to fully go through it.
- Attendance is not required. There will neither be an oral presentation by anyone of you, nor will there be a memo. The focus is on close reading and extracting the essence from the text.
- Background Information
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(#9)
11.06.2010
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SPEECH ACTS I | Text: Huang (2007: 93-119) + Ex. 1.
- Additional: Yule (1996: 47-58), Levinson (1983: 226-283)
Presentation: Erich Rasimus, Miriam Faulhaber | Memo: Bushra Mahmood, Sebastian Gühring
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(#10)
18.06.2010
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SPEECH ACTS II | Text: Huang (2007: 119-131) + Ex. 11.
Presentation: Benjamin Edinger, Katrina Geske | Memo: Hanna Schoeffel, Katharina Rettig
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(#11)
25.06.2010
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DEIXIS I | Text: Huang (2007: 132-162) + Ex 1, 8.
- Additional: Yule (1996: 9-16), Levinson (1983: 54-96)
Session from 10:45 - 12:15. Translation course needs time slot and room for intermediate exam. Do not be irritated by the numerous languages Huang adduces for his comparative discussions. It shows us how diversely human languages express deictic relations.
Presentation: Carolin Haas, Friederike Fleige, Petra Andary | Memo: Elisabeth Doehne, Nina Schneider
Supplement 5
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(#12)
02.07.2010
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DEIXIS II | Text: Huang (2007: 163-177)
Presentation: Bushra Mahmood, Sabrina Stehwien | Memo: Clemens Brucker, Benjamin Edinger
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(#13)
09.07.2010
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PRAGMATICS AND SEMANTICS I | Text: Huang (2007: 209-231)
- Additional: Recanati (2004: 442-462), Carston (2002: 94-221)
Read section 7.3.5 only cursorily. Note that Pragmatics and Semantics I+II will not be directly relevant for the exam.
Presentation: Nicole Hoffstaetter, Sebastian Gühring | Memo: Katrina Geske, Sabrina Stehwien
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(#14)
16.07.2010
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PRAGMATICS AND SEMANTICS II | Text: Huang (2007: 231-244)
Session from 10:45 - 12:15. Translation course needs time slot and room for final exam.
Presentation: Hanna Schoeffel, Clemens Brucker | Supplement 6
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(#15)
23.07.2010
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RECAPITULATION | Questions and Answers session.
No presentation, no Memo, no new information. For everybody: Bring along at least one central question you feel should be dealt with.
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(#16)
30.07.2010
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FINAL EXAM - Due to reasons of work-load relief, we decided to write the final exam at this date.
Starts 10:00 sharp.
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