UCL Pragmatic workshop

Speakers’ commitment to their utterance content and hearers’ epistemic vigilance in accepting that content (sponsored by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP)
1pm – 2pm Dan Harris (Hunter College)
Communicative Commitments as a Product of Practical Rationality
2pm – 3pm Eliot Michaelson (King’s College)
Insincerity Pluralized, and then Moralized
3pm – 3:30pm Tea/coffee break - Atrium (basement)
3:30pm – 4:10pm Francesca Bonalumi (Central European University)
Beyond the explicit-implicit distinction: The pragmatics of accountability and plausible deniability
4.10pm – 4:50pm Nausicaa Pouscoulous (University College London)
Implicature interpretation and endorsement in cooperative and uncooperative contexts
4:50pm – 5:50pm John Michael (Central European University) & Matt Chennells (University of Warwick)
Ask not and ye shall receive: when explicit agreements undermine the sense of commitment
Dan Harris (Hunter College), Eliot Michaelson (King’s College), Francesca Bonalumi (Central European University),Nausicaa Pouscoulous (University College London), John Michael (Central European University) & Matt Chennells (University of Warwick)
Further information
Ticketing
Open
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes
Organiser
Nausicaa Pouscoulous, Eliot Michaelson and Robyn Carston
Linguistics