33.3034, Calls: Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics/Belgium
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Subject: 33.3034, Calls: Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics/Belgium
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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:31:35
From: Valentina Bambini [valentina.bambini at iusspavia.it]
Subject: The complex relationship between pragmatics and theory of mind: empirical evidence across populations and theoretical consequences
Full Title: The complex relationship between pragmatics and theory of mind: empirical evidence across populations and theoretical consequences
Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact Person: Valentina Bambini
Meeting Email: valentina.bambini at iusspavia.it
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=Brussels2023
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022
Meeting Description:
CALL FOR PANEL PARTICIPANTS - 18th IPrA Conference
The following panel has been accepted to 18th International Pragmatics
Association (IPrA) (Brussels, July 9-14, 2023). Please find below the call for
papers for the panel.
Panel title
The complex relationship between pragmatics and theory of mind: empirical
evidence across populations and theoretical consequences
Proponent
Valentina Bambini
This panel explores one of the most relevant topics for the understanding of
the cognitive status of pragmatics, namely its relationship with theory of
mind (ToM).
Following the Gricean idea of the centrality of intentions in the definition
of the speaker’s meaning, theoretical approaches have often emphasized the
mindreading roots of pragmatics [1,2]. However, empirical evidence is
scattered [3]. Neuroanatomically, pragmatic tasks and ToM tasks recruit
partially overlapping brain regions [4], but in the behavioral response these
two domains are not robustly linked. Very early pragmatic skills seem to
heavily rely on social cognition aspects such as joint attention [5], but data
on older children depict a more complex scenario where inferential pragmatic
skills are related to a multiplicity of factors, not limited to ToM [6,7].
Interestingly, recent data suggest that early pragmatic skills might predict
later ToM skills, rather than viceversa [8]. In atypical populations, both
children and adults, ToM difficulties often coexist with pragmatic
difficulties [9,10], but their predictive role is debated [11]. Also, there
might be differences across pragmatic tasks [12], from more grammar-related
(e.g., scalar implicatures) and vocabulary-related (e.g., metaphor) to more
social uses of language (e.g., irony), and even across different classes of
the same phenomenon (e.g., physical vs. mental metaphors [13]).
Such a variegated landscape calls for a unified discussion, which will be
vital to get a clearer view of the cognitive status of pragmatics at the
theoretical level and to account for empirical data. This is the purpose of
this panel, which aims at bringing together scholars investigating the
relationship between pragmatics and ToM from a multiplicity of angles and with
an eye to the multiplicity of pragmatic phenomena.
People who have expressed interest in submitting: Francesca Bosco; Maud
Champagne-Lavau; Napoleon Katsos; Pilar Prieto.
References
[1] D Sperber, D Wilson, Mind Lang 2002, 17, 3–23
[2] D Mazzarella, I Noveck, Language 2021, 97, e198–e210
[3] FM Bosco, M Tirassa, I Gabbatore, Front Psychol 2018, 9, 1453
[4] A Reyes-Aguilar, E Valles-Capetillo, M Giordano, Neuroscience 2018, 395,
60–88
[5] D Matthews, Ed. , Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition,
Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2014
[6] D Matthews, H Biney, K Abbot-Smith, Lang Learn Dev 2018, 14, 186–223
[7] M Pronina … V Bambini, Lang Learn Dev 2022, DOI
10.1080/15475441.2022.2074852
[8] P Del Sette … S Lecce, Cogn Dev 2020, 56, 100958
[9] M Champagne-Lavau, E Stip, J Neurolinguistics 2010, 23, 285–296
[10] V Bambini … M Bosia, Compr Psychiatry 2016, 71, 106–120
[11] M Kissine, Language 2021, 97, e139–e160
[12] C Andrés-Roqueta, N Katsos, Front Psychol 2017, 8, 996
[13] P Canal … V Bambini, Brain Cogn 2022, DOI 10.1016/j.bandc.2022.105879
Call for Papers:
Submissions are invited from the fields of experimental pragmatics,
developmental pragmatics, clinical pragmatics, as well as from other
approaches dealing with social communication.
Selected panelists will present their contribution in the form of oral talks
during the panel.
Abstracts should be of max. 500 words and they should be uploaded on the IPrA
website by November 1, 2022.
To upload your abstract:
- Login into the IPrA system (https://ipra2023.exordo.com/login)
- Click on ''new submission'', and select the ''panel contribution'' option.
- You need to provide a title and a text of max 500 words.
- Then in the section ''Topics'' you'll find the list of accepted panels.
Scroll down to the one titled ''The complex relationship between pragmatics
and theory of mind: empirical evidence across populations and theoretical
consequences''.
- Click on “Done” to save your submission.
Please note the IPrA membership is required both to send the abstract and then
to present at the conference, as explained in the general IPrA CfP
(https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP)
For further inquiries you can email the panel organizer: Valentina Bambini
(IUSS Pavia) valentina.bambini at iusspavia.it
Further information about IPrA and the conference can be found at
https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=Brussels2023
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