This course will provide in-depth examinations of selected pragmatic phenomena within specific formal pragmatic theories. Possible phenomena to be examined include presupposition, context, implicatures vs. explicatures, conceptual vs. procedural meaning, information structure, (in)definiteness and the communicative relevance of function words. Specific theories which will be explored at length in the context of the outlined phenomena include Speech Act Theory, Gricean Theory of Meaning and Relevance Theory.