printer friendly pageLINGUIST 130A: Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (LINGUIST 230A)
Linguistic meaning and its role in communication. Topics include logical semantics, conversational implicature, presupposition, and speech acts. Applications to issues in politics, the law, philosophy, advertising, and natural language processing. Those who have not taken logic, such as
PHIL 150
or 151, should attend section. Prerequisites:
LINGUIST 1,
SYMSYS 1 (
LINGUIST 35), consent of instructor, or graduate standing in Linguistics
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
LINGUIST 230P: Advanced Pragmatics
The primary goal of this course is to cover advanced topics in pragmatics from a computational perspective. The course surveys probabilistic models for natural language semantics and pragmatics. It begins with an introduction to the Rational Speech Act framework for modeling pragmatics as social reasoning. It then explores a variety of phenomena in utterance production and interpretation. Probabilistic programming will be used as a precise and practical way to express models. The course is aimed at advanced graduate students who plan to do research in semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, or philosophy of language. Prerequisites:
LINGUIST 130A/230A or permission of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2020
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