Course Description

Conversation takes place in a context. In conversation what we literally say and what we succeed in communicating depend on such features of the context as the time of the conversation and the beliefs of its participants. Pragmatics is the study of the nature of this dependence. This course will study theories of pragmatics in the tradition of analytic philosophy, focussing on how features local to the context of a conversation affect what is said and what is communicated by the participants of the conversation.

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Instructor Delia Graff graff@princeton.edu Office: 210 Marx Hall Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30–3:30

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