José Luis Berbeira Gardón

1. Conocimiento de los principios teóricos y metodológicos propuestos por la
teoría de la pertinencia (Dan Sperber y Deirdre Wilson, 1986), así como sus
antecedentes, especialmente los lingüísticos.

2. Aplicación de tales conocimientos al estudio de la lengua inglesa,
integrando en ese conocimiento todo lo que en la historia del estudio de esta
lengua se ha hecho.

3. Conocimiento de la existencia de otras teorías del significado.

SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

1.      Introduction.

SEMANTICS

2.      Interpretive semantics.
3.      Conceptual semantics.
4.      Cognitive semantics.
5.      Formal semantics.

PRAGMATICS

6.      Speech act theory.
7.      Grice’s theory of conversation.
8.      Relevance theory.

La evaluación se realizará con arreglo a un examen teórico sobre los contenidos
vistos en clase, tanto teóricos como prácticos.

(A)  LECTURAS OBLIGATORIAS

Katz, J. J. and J. A. Fodor (1963), “The structure of a semantic theory”,
Language 39, 170-210.

Grice, H. P. (1975), “Logic and conversation”, in Cole, P. And J. L. Morgan
(eds.), Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 3: Speech Acts, New York, Academic Press.

Wilson, D. and D. Sperber (1981), “On Grice’s theory of conversation”, in P.
Werth (ed.), Conversation and Discourse, London, Croom Helm, 155-178.

Searle, J.  (1979), “A taxonomy of illocutionary acts”, en Searle, J. (1979),
Expression and Meaning, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Sperber, D. and D. Wilson (1986), Relevance: Communication and Cognition,
Oxford, Blackwell (2ª edición, 1995). Capítulos 1, 3 y 4.

LECTURAS COMPLEMENTARIAS

Austin, J. (1962), How to Do Things with Words, Oxford, Clarendon Press.

Barwise, J. and J. Perry (1983), Situations and Attitudes, Cambridge, MA., The
MIT Press.

Blakemore, D. (1992), Understanding Utterances. An Introduction to Pragmatics,
Oxford, Blackwell.

Cann, R. (1993), Formal Semantics. An Introduction, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press.

Cole, P. and J. Morgan (eds.) (1975), Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 3. Speech
Acts, New York, Academic Press.

Escandell Vidal, M. V. (1993), Introducción a la pragmática, Madrid, Anthropos.

Gazdar, G. (1979), Pragmatics: Implicature, Presupposition and Logical Form,
New York, Academic Press.

Green, G. M. (1989), Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding, New Jersey,
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Grice, H. P. (1978), “Further notes on logic and Conversation”, in Cole, P.
(ed.) Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 9. Pragmatics, New York, Academic Press, 113-
128.

Grice, H. P. (1989), Studies in the Way of Words, Cambridge, MA., Harvard
University Press.

Horn, L. (1988), “Pragmatic theory”, in Newmeyer, F. (ed.), Linguistics: The
Cambridge Survey”, vol. 1, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 113-145.

Jackendoff, R. (1990), Semantic Structures, The MIT Press.

Lakoff, G. (1987), Women, Fire and Dangerous Things. What Categories Reveal
about the Mind, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.

Lakoff, G. (1988), “Cognitive semantics”, in Eco, U., Santambrogio, M. and P.
Violi (eds.), Meaning and Mental Representations, Bloomington and Indianapolis,
Indiana University Press, 119-154.

Leech, G. N. (1983), Principles of Pragmatics, London, Longman.

Levinson, S. C. (1983), Pragmatics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Lyons, J. (1977), Semantics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Lyons, J. (1995), Linguistic Semantics. An Introduction. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press.

Mey, J. L. (1993), Pragmatics. An Introduction. Oxford, Blackwell.

Searle, J. R. (1969), Speech Acts. An Essay in the Philosophy of Language,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Searle, J. R. (1979), Expression and Meaning, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press.

Verschueren, J. and M. Bertucelli-Papi (eds.) (1987), The Pragmatic
Perspective. Selected Papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference,
Amsterdam, John Benjamins.

Yus Ramos, F. (1998), “A decade of relevance theory”, Journal of Pragmatics 30,
305-345.

Wilson, D. and N. Smith (eds.) (1993), “Relevance Theory”, Lingua 90.