RT list: Seminar on Pragmatics

Dear all,
Please find below information about the 1st Seminar on Pragmatics to be held next 17th and 18th May at the University of Seville. I hope this Seminar is of your interest.
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

1st SEMINAR ON PRAGMATICS "MEANING IN INTERACTION”
17th May
 
1st Session
 
09.30: Opening
 
10.00: Dr. Francisco Yus Ramos (University of Alicante): “A pragmatic analysis of jokes”.
 
11.00: Dra. Laura Mariottini (Sapienza Università di Roma): “Ciberpragmática: hacia la fijación de nuevos géneros telemáticos”.
 
12.00: Break
 
12.30: Dra. Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (Łodź University): “‘Plain meaning’ and the pragmatic intrusion in legal language”.
 
2nd Session
 
17.00: Dra. Agnieszka Piskorska (Warsaw University): “Applying Relevance Theory”.
 
18.00: Dra. Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman (University Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań): “Experimenting with ‘literal’ and ‘non-literal’ meaning in evaluatively loaded comments: What can response times tell us about pragmatic on line inferencing”.
 
 
18th May
 
10.00: Dr. Jesús Navarro Reyes (University of Seville): “Intention and Responsibility in Speech Acts”.
 
11.00: Dr. Stavros Assimakopoulos (University of Granada): “The Pragmatics of Lexical Semantics”.
 
12.00: Break
 
12.30: Dr. Manuel Padilla Cruz (University of Seville): “The Pragmatics of Phatic Discourse”.
 
13.30: Closing
 
Lectures will take place at Aula de Grados, Faculty of Philology, University of Seville
 
With the support of Vicerrectorado de Investigación (University of Seville, IV Plan Propio de Investigación) and Servicio de Extensión Universitaria (University of Seville)
 
Received on Mon May 9 16:54:48 2011