{"id":13635,"date":"2020-09-08T05:50:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T09:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13635"},"modified":"2020-09-07T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:16:25","slug":"more-course-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/09\/08\/more-course-announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"More course announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>24.954: Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Instructors<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> Patrick Elliott &amp; Danny Fox<\/li>\n<li><b>Meetings:<\/b> Fridays 10-1, via zoom<\/li>\n<li><b>Course site: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.mit.edu\/courses\/4201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/canvas.mit.edu\/courses\/4201<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About the course:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this course, we\u0092ll be exploring phenomena at the borderline between semantics and pragmatics. At a broad level of abstraction, we can take <em>semantics<\/em> vs.\u00a0<em>pragmatics<\/em> to be a distinction between linguistic and <em>extra-<\/em>linguistic factors governing interpretation and language use. A recurring question will be: what is within the purview of semantics proper, and what can (or should) be explained with reference to extra-grammatical factors.<\/p>\n<p>Empirical phenomena which we hope to discuss include presupposition, anaphora, implicature, and questions. We\u0092ll discuss some central theoretical developments in the field, such as Stalnaker\u0092s notion of <em>common ground,<\/em> the dynamic turn in semantic theory, and various proposals pertaining to scalar strengthening.<\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\">Listeners are welcome. Requirements for credit will be detailed in the first session.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24.954: Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory Instructors: Patrick Elliott &amp; Danny Fox Meetings: Fridays 10-1, via zoom Course site: https:\/\/canvas.mit.edu\/courses\/4201 About the course: In this course, we\u0092ll be exploring phenomena at the borderline between semantics and pragmatics. At a broad level of abstraction, we can take semantics vs.\u00a0pragmatics to be a distinction between linguistic and extra-linguistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13636,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635\/revisions\/13636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}