Pragmatics 2:
Guest Lecture by Christopher Potts, Associate Professor of Linguistics.
Readings:
- Jay, Timothy. 2000. Why We Curse - A Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Chapters 3 and 5
Further Readings:
- Jay, Timothy. 2000. Why We Curse - A Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Chapter 10
- Optional Reading:
The Top 10 Misconceptions about Implicature by Kent Bach (2005).
- Optional Reading:
Do the Right Thing by Robert E. Frederking. This paper argues
that the Gricean maxims are too vague to be useful in implementing
machine translation.
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