This course provides an introduction to the study of pragmatics, which is concerned with aspects of meaning beyond (but intertwined with) what is logically implied, related to how language is used in context. These include (i) conversational implicatures: inferences that arise through reasoning about the speaker's adherence to conversational maxims like "Be as informative as you can", underlying the intuition that, for example, "I got a decent score on the exam" implies that the speaker did not get a great score on the exam; and (ii) presuppositions: notions that a speaker or utterance takes for granted. When one says "All of Jane's friends are coming to the party," for instance, one takes for granted that Jane has at least three friends. Phenomena such as these will lead us to consider the viewpoint that 'meaning is use'; to give the meaning of something is to give the conditions under which it can be used. Indexicals like "you", "I", "here", and "now", further support this viewpoint, as do expressives like "oops" and "ouch" as well as "damn" and other rude terms. Yet we will attempt a synthesis of the view that 'meaning is use' with the formalist approach to meaning in natural language. The course involves substantial weekly homework assignments with reading and comprehension exercises (which may be written in German or English, but the lectures and readings will be in English) as well as a final exam (which may be written in German or English).