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              

This course deals with a wide range of issues especially in pragmatics. Topics may include the domain of pragmatics, implicature (both conversational and conventional), presupposition, speech act, deixis, reference, pragmatics and cognition (focusing on relevance theory), pragmatics and the lexicon, pragmatics and semantics, and pragmatics and syntax with special reference to Chomsky’s anaphora and binding theory. There are two versions of this course A and B, depending on students’ previous knowledge status of the subject. and version B is more advanced than version A.