Einführung in die Pragmatik und Diskurs

Alexis Palmer (office hour: Monday 14-15, C72, 2.08)
Andrea Horbach (office hour: Wednesday 14-15, C72, 1.04)

Meeting times: Monday, 8:30-10am, 12:30-2pm
General course description in Vorlesungsverzeichnis SS 2014

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Themes

Common ground. Context. Pragmatic inferences.
Reference. Discourse model. Givenness and familiarity. Salience. Anaphoric reference, coreference and bridging. Anaphora resolution. Generation of referring expressions.
Conversational Implicatures. Gricean cooperative principle and maxims of conversation.
Presuppositions. Semantic and pragmatic theories. Presupposition projection.
Information structure.
Discourse coherence. Discourse relations.
Speech acts (conversation acts). Grounding and grounding acts.
Conversation structure analysis. Dialogue modeling.