RT list: Universality and Empirical Validity in Pragmatics

Members of this list attending the LSA Linguistic Institute at Ann Arbor,
MI, this July may be interested in the workshop below. The workshop is free
and open to the public, and no registration is required.

Universality and Empirical Validity in Pragmatics
Friday, July 12 , 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Morning session
9:00am-9:15: Welcome & introductory remarks
9:15-10:00: Judith Tonhauser (Ohio State University):"On the interplay of
theory and quantitative methods in formal pragmatic research"
10:00-!0:45: Thomas Holtgraves (Ball State University): “How WEIRD are
they? Disentangling psychological and pragmatic processes?”
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00pm: Napoleon Katsos (Cambridge University, UK):
"Cross-linguistic similarity and variation in sensitivity to
informativeness"
Afternoon session
1:15-2:00: Nick Enfield (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen): "Enchronic
Typology and Pragmatic Diversity"
2:00-2:45: Christina Kim (University of Chicago): "Broad generalizations
about pragmatic processing"
2:45-3:00: Coffee break
3:00-4:00: Closing discussion

Organizers
*Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Philippe De Brabanter (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University)
*Workshop contact: mt217@illinois.edu

For more information and to download the abstracts for all talks, please go
to:

http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/mt217/LSA2013_WS14_Pragmatics.html
Received on Thu May 30 17:23:02 2013