Course Description Speakers of a language, like English, understand the sentences of that language.
Speakers know what sentences of their language mean.
Two speakers who share a language can communicate with each other. A speaker can use her language to talk about her environment. We can also tell jokes, be ironic, spin fairy tells, create metaphors, etc. This course will be devoted to such matters. But part of the course will also be devoted to sketching connections between proposals offered by these philosophers, as part of an attempt to start explaining the facts mentioned above, and more recent work in linguistics.