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CUNYPragmatics: Robyn Carston, Marilynn Johnson, Deirdre Wilson
October 15, 2014 @ 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
CUNY Pragmatics Workshop: Relevance, Games, and Communication
Wednesday, October 15 (Room 9207)
9:15 Coffee
9:30 Daniel Harris (CUNY) “Act-theoretic semantics for pragmatics”
10:30 Larry Horn (Yale) “Trivial pursuits: on being orderly”
11:30 Stephen Neale (CUNY) “All meaning is natural meaning?”
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Robyn Carston (UCL) “Systematicity, optionality and relevance”
2:30 Student Presentations
Elmar Unnsteinsson (CUNY) “The pragmatics of malapropisms”
Marilynn Johnson (CUNY) “Why we implicate: revising Pinker’s game-theoretic proposal”
Jesse Rappaport (CUNY) “Parsimony in linguistic theorizing: a double-edged razor”
3:30 Coffee
4:15 Keynote Talk & Philosophy Colloquium
Deirdre Wilson (UCL/Oslo) “Explaining Metonymy”
6:00 Reception
7:30 Speakers’ dinner
The CUNY Pragmatics Workshop is funded by a CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant (CIRG# 2033) with additional support from the Program in Philosophy and the John H Kornblith Fund.
