Discourse and pragmatics encompass the study of language as it is used in real contexts, probing not only its formal structure but also the rich, context‐dependent processes by which meaning is ...

College is often the first time students find themselves in a large lecture hall with a hundred or more similarly sleepy students, with some trying to concentrate on the PowerPoint and others watching ...

One of the hottest philosophical debates in recent years concerns the nature of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Some writers have expressed the reserve that this might be merely terminological, but ...

Dr. H. M. Kallen '03, of the Department of Philosophy, will give the first of his series of seven lectures on the general subject of "Beauty and Use: Outlines of a Pragmatic of Art" in Emerson F this ...