22 Sep
2022
22 Sep
'22
2:44 p.m.
Dear all,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by:
Ira Noveck (CNRS & Université de
Paris-Cité)<https://sites.google.com/site/iranoveck/home>
“Revealing the role of intentions through experimental pragmatics"
Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 – 16:00-17:30 (CET)
Host: Christophe Heintz
Location: D002 tiered (QS Vienna) and Zoom
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ABSTRACT:
Gricean theory has (obviously) been inspirational for experimentalists who investigate
pragmatic phenomena. For example, most experimental papers that describe scalar
implicature (e.g. consider how the utterance “some TRUMP voters believe that the 2020
election was fraudulent” can be understood to pragmatically mean “some but not all…”) are
quick to cite Grice’s theory of communication by pointing out how pragmatic enrichment
involves detecting a maxim violation and drawing out an implied meaning. However, these
same papers typically go on to decompose scalar implicature into a mechanical two-step
process (e.g. find a more informative alternative to some and negate it) that – ultimately
-- hardly seems Gricean at all. That is, many of us ignore the fact, or forget, that
Grice, as an ordinary language theorist, proposed an original model of communication that
relies on intention-reading. The upshot is that intention-reading has been largely
overlooked in experimental pragmatic investigations. In this talk, I will present two
studies that bring Gricean intention-reading back to the center of language comprehension.
One of these concerns what Grice would consider to be a conversational implicature (i.e.
scalar implicatures like the one above) and another that he would consider to be a
conventional implicature (concerning the French response Si, in which one gives an
affirmative response to a negative question; see Noveck et al., 2021). These studies will
highlight how intention-reading can be isolated as a factor in language comprehension.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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