RT list: EPICS V - Relevance Theory:

Dear all,

Please find below the final programme of EPICS V, the
5th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social
Pragmatics, which is this year exclussively dedicated to Relevance
Theory. You can also find more information about EPICS V on the
conference website:
http://www.upo.es/congresos/epics-v/what-is/index.jsp [1]

WEDNESDAY,
14th March

9.30-10.00: CONFERENCE OPENING SESSION

10.00-11.00:
PLENARY LECTURE: Prof Deirdre Wilson - "Relevance, literary
interpretation and value"

Building: 7; Room: Sala de Grados

11.00-11.30: BREAK

Panel 1: Relevance and irony

Building: 7; Room:
Sala de Grados

11.30-12.00: "Relevance Theory and contextual
sources-centred analysis of irony. Current research and compatibility"

Francisco Yus Ramos

12.00-12.30: "Irony comprehension in preschool
children"

Márta Szücs

12.30-13.00: "Echo or polyphony? - Irony and
two contrastive theoretic approaches"

Tomonori Okubo

13.00-13.30:
"Relevance as a key criterion for distinguishing rhetorical and ironical
questions cognitive effects"

Thierry Raeber

Panel 2: Relevance
Theory, pragmatic competence and SLT (1)

Building: 8; Room: 4

11.30-12.00: "Origins and development of modern foreign language
learning and pragmatics: whatever happened to the notional-functional
approach and what does Relevance Theory has to do with it?" Agustín
Barrientos Clavero

12.00-12.30: "The pragmatics of second language
acquisition: not interlanguage pragmatics"

Didier Maillat

12.30-13.00: "Relevance Theory and second language acquisition"

Aoife Ahern

13.00-13.30: "Pragmatic competence, Relevance Theory and
epistemic vigilance"

Elly Ifantidou

13.30-15.30: LUNCH

Panel 3:
Relevance and Translation

Building: 7; Room: Sala de Grados

15.30-16.00: "Explicitness and implicitness in translation"

Astrid
Nome

16.00-16.30: "Disambiguation of Tenses for Machine Translation: A
referential and feature-based approach on the conceptual/procedural
distinction"

Cristina Grisot and Jacques Moeschler

Panel 4:
Relevance and metaphor

Building: 8; Room: 4

15.30-16.00: "Inferences
in the semantics of actants: Evidence for metaphor and metonymy"

Alexey V. Yavetskiy

16.00-16.30: "On the origin of secondary
interjections: a relevance-theoretic proposal"

Manuel Padilla Cruz

16.30-17.00: BREAK

Panel 5: Relevance-theoretic analysis of media
discourse

Building: 8; Room: 4

17.00-17.30: "Spanish-English
code-mixing in print advertisements: A Relevance-Theoretic analysis"

Ike C. Zwaan

17.30-18.00: "Optimizing relevance through news frames"

Monika Kopitowska

Panel 6: Procedural meaning

Building: 7; Room:
Sala de Grados

17.00-17.30: "The speaker's derivational intention"

Thorstein Fretheim

17.30-18.00: "Reference assignment in pronominal
argument languages - a relevance-theoretical perspective"

Helga
Schröder

THURSDAY, 15th March

Panel 7: Relevance and humour

Building: 7; Room: Sala de Grados

9.00-9.30: "Relevance Theory and
humour: using metalinguistic expressions in comic strips created for a
grammar and pragmatics class"

Eduardo Varela Bravo

9.30-10.00:
"Relevance in humor: a corpus-based analysis of interactional humor in
House M.D. and The Big Bang Theory"

Sabina Tabacaru

Panel 8:
Relevance and (im)politeness

Building: 16; Room: 5

9.00-9.30:
"(Im)politeness issues in the CB radio discourse of Polish drivers - a
relevance-theoretic perspective"

Ewa Nowik-Dziewicka

9.30-10.00:
"Power and relevance"

Sri Minda Murni and Mutsyuhito Solin

10.00-11.00: PLENARY LECTURE - Prof Robyn Carston "The relevance of
metaphorical utterances"

Building: 7; Room: Sala de Grados

11.00-11.30: BREAK

Panel 9: Relevance and discourse markers

Building: 7; Room: Sala de Grados

11.30-12.00: "Revisiting lah - A
Relevant-theoretic approach"

Lee Junwen & Kim Chonghyuck

12.00-12.30: "Discourse markers, Argumentation Theory and Relevance
Theory"

Araceli López Serena & Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga

12.30-13.00: "A new kind of resemblance marker"

ReginaBlass

13.00-13.30: "Are there any logical connectors in Relevance Theory?
The case of and-utterances"

Yannis Kostopoulos

Panel 10. Relevance
and lexical pragmatics

Building: 16; Room: 5

11.30-12.00: "Lexical
pragmatics and utterance traces"

Catalina Urquiza Arribas

12.00-12.30: "Ad hoc concepts: atomic or decompositional?"

Alison
Hall

12.30-13.00: "Integrating Relevance Theory and Conceptual
Integration Theory"

Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas

13.00-13.30: "Cognitive
modules and the presemantic role of context"

Stavros Assimakopoulos

13.30-14.00: "A new Voyage to Laputa on the ship of the
Relevance-theoretical notions of weak implicature and ad-hoc concepts"

M. Ángeles Ruiz Moneva

14.00-15.30: LUNCH

Panel 11: Relevance and
speech acts (1)

Building: 7; Room: Sala de Grados

15.30-16.00: "Are
implicit compliments really that implicit?"

Carmen Maiz Arévalo

16.00-16.30: "Cognitive and affective effects: A case study of
compliments and refusals inEnglandandPoland"

Joanna Bhatti & Vladimir
Žegarac

16.30-17.00: "Relevance Theory and indirect speech acts"

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Panel 12: Relevance, literary discourse and
rhetorics (1)

Building: 16; Room: 5

15.30-16.00: "Relevance Theory,
literary interpretation and literary value"

Billy Clark

16.00-16.30:
"Rhetoric and cognition: Towards a relevance theoretic account of
argumentative effectiveness"

Steve Oswald

16.30-17.00: "Relevance
across multiple audiences"

Kevin Sparks

17.00-17.30: BREAK

Panel
13: Relevance and speech acts (2)

Building: 7; Room: Sala de Grados

17.30-18.00: "Interpreting Spanish rhetorical exclamatives"

Patricia
Andueza

18.00-18.30: "Relevance Theory and perlocutionary effects"

Agnieszka Piskorska

18.30-19.00: "Relevance, conventionality and
illocution"

Iwona Witczak Plisiecka

Panel 14: Relevance, literary
discourse and rhetorics (2)

Building: 16; Room: 5

17.30-18.00:
"Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilance"

Christoph Unger

18.00-18.30: "Reconstructing intentions and goals in CR dialogues"

Kamila Dębowska-Kozłowska

21.00: Conference Dinner

FRIDAY, 16th
March

Panel 15: Relevance Theory, pragmatic competence and SLT (2)

Building: 7; Room: Sala de Grados

9.00-9.30: "Relevance and
communication in the Common European Framework of Reference"

Eva M.
Mestre Mestre & M. Luisa Carrió Pastor

9.30-10.00: "Can relevance
theory be applied in the writing classroom? Pedagogical perspectives on
the case of 'this' plus summary noun"

Nicky Owtram

10.00-10.30:
"Cognitive processes in language teachers' self-constructed
multicultural identity. An application of Relevance Theory"

Matilde
Gallardo

10.30-11.00: "The use of context in pragmatic language
comprehension by Spanish-speaking children: An application of Relevance
Theory"

Susana Verde Ruiz

Panel 16: Other issues in and applications
of Relevance Theory (1)

Building: 7; Room: 2

9.00-9.30: "How to
infer negation scope: scope restriction as a case of pragmatic
enrichment"

Jacques Moeschler

9.30-10.00: "Backwards shifting in
French and in Spanish: Reconsidering the role of tenses"

José Amenós
Pons

10.00-10.30: "Relevance, discourse constellations and evaluation:
A corpus-based analysis of meaning negotiation in naming practices"

Sergio Maruenda Bataller

10.30-11.00: "Toward a formal theory of
musical relevance"

Edoardo Acotto

11.00-11.30: BREAK

Panel 17:
Other issues in and applications of Relevance Theory (2)

Building: 7;
Room: Sala de Grados

11.30-12.00: "Autistic Children in Conversational
Settings: References and Metarepresentation"

Mark Wicklund

12.00-12.30: "The effective emergency communication - from the
viewpoint of relevance theory"

Kyoko Arai

Panel 18: Other issues in
and applications of Relevance Theory (3)

Building: 7; Room: 2

11.30-12.00: "On explicature"

Xose Rosales Sequeiros

12.00-12.30:
"Poetic effects and affective contents: The case of lexical
reduplication"

Daniela Rossi

12.30-13.15: Poster Session

Building:
7; Room: Sala de Grados Lobby

"The Application of Metaphors in
Psychotherapy"

Isabelle Needham-Didsbury

"(In)compatible
assumptions: How headlines attract readers"

Milica Radulović

"Emotions, inferences and intentions in dialogues: a study in a
semantic-pragmatic approach"

Cláudia Strey

"Effects and
interpretation of silence in communication: The case of silence as an
answer to requests"

Gala Karina Villaseñor García

13.15-13.30:
CONFERENCE CLOSING

Building: 7; Room: Sala de Grados

13.30: LUNCH

All the very best,

-- 
Dr. Manuel Padilla Cruz
Departamento de
Filología Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa)
Facultad de Filología
UNIVERSIDAD DE
SEVILLA
c/ Palos de la Frontera, s/n.
41004 Sevilla
(Spain)
mpadillacruz@us.es
  
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