Semantics Pragmatics II

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Building on the foundation of Semantics and Pragmatics 1, this course covers a variety of topics and aims to help students transition into working with original, current research in the field. The specific topics chosen each year vary (and may be adjusted depending on student interest), but include such issues as tense and aspect, mood and modality, intensional verbs, Gricean and neo-Gricean pragmatics, theories of presupposition, and speech acts.