Over the Easter break, please read the reading package deposited at the departmental secretary's. It contains excerpts from:

• Schiffrin, Deborah. 1994. Approaches to Discourse. Oxford: Blackwell
• Levinson, Stephen C. 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

In particular, you're asked to read the following pages (in the order provided):

1. Schiffrin (1994): pp. 190-203
2. Levinson (1983): pp. 1-35
3. Levinson (1983): 97-119
4. Levinson (1983): 226-251
5. Schiffrin (1994): 49-60

These books are also avilable in the library.

Please also read the following three chapters (downloadable, also in the package):

• Neal R. Norrick. 2001. Discourse and Semantics. In Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.). The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 76-99.
• Blakemore, Diane. 2001. Discourse and Relevance Theory. In Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.). The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 100-118.
• Sperber, Dan and Deirdre Wilson. 2004. Relevance Theory. In Gregory Ward and Laurence Horn (eds.). Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 607-632.

In addition, you're encouraged to read up on the relevant topics in the following books, which are on the reserve/short-term loan list:

• Verschueren, J. 1999. Understanding Pragmatics. London: Arnold.
• Verschueren, J., J.-O. Ostman, and J. Blommaert (eds.). 1997. Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Verschueren, J., J.-O. Ostman, and J. Blommaert (eds.). 1997. Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

We have six more classes and will cover the following material:

• April 19 (MON):
  N.R. Norrick "Discourse and Semantics"
  S.C. Levinson "The Scope of Pragmatics"
  
• April 21 (WED!):
  D. Schiffrin "Pragmatics"
  S.R. Levinson "Conversational Implicature"
  
• April 22 (THU):
  S.R. Levinson "Speech Acts"
  D. Schiffrin "Speech Act Theory"
  
• April 26 (MON):
  leftovers and introduction to discourse analysis
  
• April 29 (THU):
  D. Blakemore "Discourse and Relevance Theory"
  D. Sperber & D. Wilson "Relevant Theory"
  
• May 3 (MON):
  exercises, review, exam preparation