Events

Vilde Reksnes Is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh working on experimental and developmental pragmatics.

Elin McCready is professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Aoyama Gakuin University. Her research is particularly focused on phenomena such as evidentials, honorifics and slurs. She is an associate editor of Semantics and Pragmatics, and was the 2021 recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Our next guest speaker in the Pragmatics series will be Dr. Christine Howes, Head of the Linguistics and Theory of Science unit, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

TALK IS CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS

Our next guest speaker in the Pragmatics series will be Dr. Manuel Bohn from the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Guest talk by Tone Hermansen, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo.

The next speaker in the Future of Pragmatic series will be Filippo Domaneschi, professor at the University of Genova, Italy. Filippo will talk about his work on expressive language.

Mikhail Kissine is professor of linguistics at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Principal Investigator of the research group on Autism, ACTE. He works at the interface between linguistics and cognitive science.

He will talk to us, via Zoom, about some of his recent work.

Diana Mazzarella is Professor at the Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Neuchâtel. Her current work lies in the interdisciplinary field of pragmatics, which explores language and communication from a cognitive perspective.

Nausicaa Pouscoulous is Associate Professor in Linguistics at University College London. Her research combines experimental and theoretical approaches and focuses on linguistic phenomena at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, such as scalar implicature, presupposition and metaphor. In recent years she has been particularly interested in the acquisition of pragmatic abilities in typically and atypically developing children.

They will talk to us, via Zoom, about some of their recent work on irony. 

Valentina Bambini is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) of Pavia, Staff Member of the IUSS Lab for Neurolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, and Theoretical Syntax (NETS), and Coordinator of the joint IUSS-San Raffaele University PhD Program in Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind. She is expert in neurolinguistics including neuropragmatics and experimental pragmatics, focusing on the cognitive and neural underpinnings of communicative abilities. She will talk to us, via Zoom, about some of her recent work on metaphor and theory of mind.

For those who want to meet on campus, a room is booked. To join in via Zoom, please email the organisers for the link.

Anna Papafragou, who is professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, is a leading expert on experimental semantics and pragmatics, language acquisition, and language and cognition.