Course syllabus

SEMESTER 2, 2017
Course Information

• Course Coordinator 

Professor Yan Huang yan.huang@auckland.ac.nz

• Teacher

Professor Yan Huang yan.huang@auckland.ac.nz

• Tutor

Professor Yan Huang yan.huang@auckland.ac.nz

• Course delivery format

2 hours of lectures

(Timetable and room details can be viewed on Student Services Online)

Summary of Course Description              

Pragmatics - the systematic study of language use in context - is a rapidly developing discipline in linguistics and the philosophy of language. This series of lectures continue to provide an introduction to the central topics in pragmatics. Among the issues to be dealt with in individual lectures may include speech acts, presupposition, deixis, reference, pragmatics and cognition, especially relevance theory, pragmatics and the lexicon, pragmatics and semantics, and pragmatics and Chomsky’s formal syntax, focusing on binding and anaphora.