PLIN0050 Graduate Seminar in Pragmatics 2023-24
Module Convenor: Richard Breheny
Contributing Staff: Robyn Carston, Nausicaa Pouscoulous, Tim Pritchard
The Pragmatics Seminar will run across Terms 1 and 2. We expect there to be 8-9 ‘Seminar’ sessions plus additional sessions for student presentations.
Term 1
11 October, 2.30-4.30pm, Room B07 Student Presentation: Anna Porrini ' Intentions in priming implicatures'
18 October, 11.00-1.00pm, Room B07 Seminar I - Distributional Semantic Models
Günther, F., Rinaldi, L., & Marelli, M. (2019). Vector-Space Models of Semantic Representation From a Cognitive Perspective: A Discussion of Common Misconceptions. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(6), 1006-1033. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619861372
Lenci, A. (2018). Distributional Models of Word Meaning. Annual Review of Linguistics https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030514-125254
Günther F., Dudschig C., Kaup B. (2015). LSAfun–An R package for computations based on Latent Semantic Analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 47, 930–944.
1 November, 2.30-4.30pm, Room B07 Seminar II: Modelling Metaphor I
Background: Degen, J. (2023). RSA. Annual Review of Linguistics. 9: 519-540.
Background: Probabilistic language understanding: An introduction to the Rational Speech Act framework
Sperber, D. & Wilson, D. (1986). Loose Talk
Kao, J., Bergen, L. & Goodman, N. (2014) Formalizing the Pragmatics of Metaphor Understanding
15 November, 1.00-2.00pm, Room B07 Student Presentation: Shaokang Jin -
Priming relevant and non-relevant features in metaphorical and literal contexts
17-18 November, All day, IAS Forum (G17) PALLMYR 2023
22 November, 2.00-5.00pm, IAS Forum (G17) Donkey sentences: From computational and experimental perspectives
29November, 1.00-2.00pm, Room 101 Anna Porrini presentation
06 December, 2.30-4.30pm, Room B07 Student Presentation: Federico Frau, IUSS Pavia -
'Sensory-motor experience, mental imagery, and metaphor comprehension: insights from schizophrenia'
13 December, 2.30-4.30pm, Room B07 Seminar III: Modelling Metaphor II
Kao, J., Bergen, L. & Goodman, N. (2014) Formalizing the Pragmatics of Metaphor Understanding
Mayn, A., & Demberg, V. (2022). Pragmatics of Metaphor Revisited: Modeling the Role of Degree and Salience in Metaphor Understanding
Carenini, G., Bischetti, L., Schaeken, W., & Bambini, V. (2023). Towards a better Rational Speech Act framework for context-aware modeling of metaphor understanding
Term 2
17 January, 2-4pm, Room B07 - Seminar IV: Polysemy II
Brocher, A., Foraker, S., & Koenig, J.-P. (2016). Processing of irregular polysemes in sentence reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(11), 1798–1813. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000271
Klepousniotou, E., Titone, D., & Romero, C. (2008). Making sense of word senses: The comprehension of polysemy depends on sense overlap. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 1534–1543. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0013012
Klepousniotou, E., & Baum, S. R. (2007). Disambiguating the ambiguity advantage effect in word recognition: An advantage for polysemous but not homonymous words. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 20, 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2006.02.001
Carston, R. (2021). Polysemy: Pragmatics and sense conventions. Mind & Language.
24 January, 3-5pm, Room B02 - Mikhail Kissine. (Université Libre de Bruxelles) 'Language versus communication in autism'.
31 January, 2-3pm, Room B07 - Student Presentation
21 February, 2-4pm, Room B07 - Sebastian Schuster
06 March, 2-4pm, Room B07 - tbc
13 March, 2-4pm, Room B07 - tbc
20 March, 2-3pm, Room B07 - Student Presentation