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Jun 17, 2025
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2011-2012 Graduate Studies Bulletin [Archived Catalog]
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LING 729 - Pragmatic Theory|Credits: 3
Study of formal approaches to pragmatic phenomena such as focus, presupposition, and implicature; examination of deictic, contextual and perspectival expressions; survey of pragmatic frameworks such as Relevance Theory and Discourse Representation Theory; study of information structural properties of natural languages, including topic- comment structure, given-new contrasts, definiteness versus indefiniteness.
Cross-listed Course: PHIL 717
Prerequisites: LING 600 or 627
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