Location

University of California, Irvine
School of Social Sciences
Social Sciences Plaza B, room 1222

Visitor parking is available in the Social Science Parking Structure.

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Program

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7

11:00–11:30 : GREGORY SCONTRAS (UCI) & NICOLE GOTZNER (OSNABRÜCK)
Introduction

11:30–12:00 : GREGORY SCONTRAS (UCI)
Subjectivity and adjective ordering

12:00–13:30 : LUNCH

13:30–14:00 : SARANG JEONG (STANFORD)
Negative strengthening is the result of both adjectival polarity and face considerations

14:00–14:30 : JESSICA RETT (UCLA)
Mild-mannered: The relationship between markedness and politeness

14:30–15:00 : BREAK

15:00–15:30 : CHARLOTTE UHLEMANN (OSNABRÜCK) & NICOLE GOTZNER (OSNABRÜCK )
Scale structure predicts children’s adjective productions: A corpus study on English and German

15:30–16:00 : YONGJIA SONG (UCI)
Lexical entrainment among bilinguals

16:00–16:30 : BREAK

16:30–17:00 : NICOLE GOTZNER (OSNABRÜCK)
How politicians communicate via loopholes: On cooperation and shared beliefs in pragmatics

17:00–17:30 : KATE RITCHIE (UCI)
Generics, context-sensitivity, and the possibility of miscommunication

THURSDAY, AUGUST 8

10:00–10:30 : KRISTINA KOBROCK (OSNABRÜCK)
Modeling pragmatics in a multi-agent framework

10:30–11:00 : ELSI KAISER (USC)
Sneaky subjectivity: Linguistic and non-linguistic effects on the interpretation of subjective adjectives

11:00–11:30 : BREAK

11:30–12:00 : CAILIN O’CONNOR (UCI)
Measuring conventionality

12:00–12:30 : NOA ATTALI (UCI)
Navigating uncertainty in communication using speech and context: A case study of naturalistic every-negation

12:30 : COLLABORATION MEETINGS OVER LUNCH