Reading Prioritization Advice: The majority of the course is structured so that each session focuses on one paper in depth. The first two weeks are an exception, since they provide the background for the rest of the course. If you are very familiar with some of these works, you can look them over quickly or skip them entirely and focus on the papers you are less familiar with. However, if you are trying to familiarize yourself with everything, here is some advice about how to triage:
1. Read the Grice, Lewis, and either "Assertion" or ch.2 of Context by Stalnaker. You should definitely be familiar with at least this much.
2. Read pp.1–26 of "Information Structure in Discourse" by Craige Roberts. This will become essential as background, but mostly later in the course.
3. Read Clark
4. Read the rest of Stalnaker
5. Read the rest of Roberts
Reading Prioritization Advice: The majority of the course is structured so that each session focuses on one paper in depth. The first two weeks are an exception, since they provide the background for the rest of the course. If you are very familiar with some of these works, you can look them over quickly or skip them entirely and focus on the papers you are less familiar with. However, if you are trying to familiarize yourself with everything, here is some advice about how to triage:
1. Read the Grice, Lewis, and either "Assertion" or ch.2 of Context by Stalnaker. You should definitely be familiar with at least this much.
2. Read pp.1–26 of "Information Structure in Discourse" by Craige Roberts. This will become essential as background, but mostly later in the course.
3. Read Clark
4. Read the rest of Stalnaker
5. Read the rest of Roberts