The psychology of meaning

• Lecture 1: Psychological explanations [ handout ]
  Recommended reading: Daniel Dennett: True believers: the intentional strategy and why it works [ pdf ]
• Lecture 2: Paul Grice's theory of conversation [ handout ]
  Recommended reading: Stephen Neale: Paul Grice and the philosophy of language, pages 509-537 [ pdf ]
• Lecture 3: Quantity implicatures [ handout ]
  Recommended reading: Bart Geurts, Quantity implicatures, Chapters 2 and 3 [ pdf ]
• Lecture 4: Processing Q-implicatures [ handout ]
  Recommended reading: Bart Geurts, Quantity implicatures, Chapter 4 [ pdf ]
• Lecture 5: Nonce inferences or defaults? [ handout ]
  Recommended reading: Bart Geurts, Quantity implicatures, Chapter 5 [ pdf ]
• Lecture 6: Free choice and the proper treatment of Q-implicatures [ handout ]
  Recommended reading: Bart Geurts, Quantity implicatures, Chapter 6 [ pdf ]
• Lecture 7a: Embedded implicatures [ handout ]
  Recommended reading: Bart Geurts, Quantity implicatures, Chapter 7 [ pdf ]
• Lecture 7b: Embedded implicatures (cont.) [ handout ]
  Recommended reading: Bart Geurts, Quantity implicatures, Chapter 8 [ pdf ]