Viewing Experimental Pragmatics from a Cognitive Science perspective
The course will discuss the relationship between pragmatics and other cognitive sciences by presenting their historical connections as well as their intersection in the study of human cognition and communication. The course will discuss the way in which pragmatic inference interacts with reasoning and social cognition (Theory of Mind, epistemic vigilance, group cognition) by focusing on a series of different pragmatic phenomena, such as scalar inferences, conditionals and figurative uses of language.
Mon Aug 5th | Tue Aug 6th | Wed Aug 7th | Thu Aug 8th | Fri Aug 9th | Mon Aug 12th | Tue Aug 13th | Wed Aug 14th | Thu Aug 15th | Fri Aug 16th |
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- Pragmatics and Theory of Mind |
- Pragmatics and social psychology |
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- From Philosophical Disputes to Experiments: The main cleavage in Experimental Pragmatics |
- Pragmatics and communicative development |
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- Pragmatics and reasoning I: Are scalar inferences conversational implicatures? |
- Pragmatics and epistemic vigilance |
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- Pragmatics and reasoning II: Are conditionals conventional implicatures? |
- Pragmatics and face-management |
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Mon Aug 5th | Tue Aug 6th | Wed Aug 7th | Thu Aug 8th | Fri Aug 9th | Mon Aug 12th | Tue Aug 13th | Wed Aug 14th | Thu Aug 15th | Fri Aug 16th |
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- Pragmatics and Theory of Mind |
- Pragmatics and social psychology |
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- From Philosophical Disputes to Experiments: The main cleavage in Experimental Pragmatics |
- Pragmatics and communicative development |
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- Pragmatics and reasoning I: Are scalar inferences conversational implicatures? |
- Pragmatics and epistemic vigilance |
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- Pragmatics and reasoning II: Are conditionals conventional implicatures? |
- Pragmatics and face-management |
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Mon Aug 5th
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From Philosophical Disputes to Experiments: The main cleavage in Experimental Pragmatics
Tue Aug 6th
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Pragmatics and reasoning I: Are scalar inferences conversational implicatures?
Wed Aug 7th
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Pragmatics and reasoning II: Are conditionals conventional implicatures?
Thu Aug 8th
Fri Aug 9th
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Pragmatics and Theory of Mind
Mon Aug 12th
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Pragmatics and communicative development
Tue Aug 13th
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Pragmatics and epistemic vigilance
Wed Aug 14th
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Pragmatics and face-management
Thu Aug 15th
Fri Aug 16th
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Pragmatics and social psychology