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At Northwestern, I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy and the Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Here are the course descriptions and syllabi for the courses that I have recently taught. N.b.There will no doubt be substantial revisions made to the syllabus before the course is taught again.
Recently Taught Courses
Pragmatics
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An introduction to extrasemantic meaning, focusing on the role of context in utterance production and interpretation. Topics include the semantics-pragmatics boundary, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, reference, and information structure.
Experimental Pragmatics
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A survey of pragmatic topics and associated experimental methodologies for analyzing the role of context in utterance production and comprehension.
Reference
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Linguistic, philosophical, and cognitive approaches to the study of reference, focusing on the role of context in the production and interpretation of referring expressions. Topics include definiteness, genericity, deixis, and anaphora.
Language & Gender
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Exploration of socially significant differences in the language used by/about/to men and women, focusing on the role of language in constructing gender as part of local communities of practice.
Language & Sexuality
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The uses of language to construct, negotiate, and conceal sexual identity, focusing on the language of and about queer-identified communities. Topics include identity labels and caetegories, heteronormativity, gender versus sexuality, and cross-cultural sexual diversity.
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