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