35.2319, Calls: 19th International Pragmatics Conference Panel: "Speakers, hearers, and their respective meanings: the limits of common ground"

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Date: 21-Aug-2024
From: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen [Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk]
Subject: 19th International Pragmatics Conference Panel: "Speakers, hearers, and their respective meanings: the limits of common ground"


Full Title: 19th International Pragmatics Conference Panel: "Speakers,
hearers, and their respective meanings: the limits of common ground"
Short Title: IPC19

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Meeting Email: Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

Panel: "Speakers, hearers, and their respective meanings: the limits
of common ground"

Call for Papers:

Organizers: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Manchester), Marina Terkourafi
(Leiden)

The idea that messages encoded in speakers' utterances are
subsequently decoded by hearers has long been abandoned within
pragmatics in favor of an inferential model which views meaning
derivation as an interactional process to which the subjectivities,
emotions, and cognitive environments of both speakers and hearers (as
well as eventual third parties) actively take part. This inferential
approach to communication assumes, if only implicitly, that the
meanings entertained by speakers and hearers cannot be expected to be
identical but are at best a matter of overlap. We wish to explore the
limits of this overlap: to what extent, and based on what factors, do
speakers' and hearers’ meanings overlap and what is the point beyond
which we may talk of a communication break-down (miscommunication)?
The panel will explore the extent to which there may be pluralities of
meaning in interaction, i.e. different meanings entertained by
different participants, without entailing any overt (noticed)
breakdown of communication. We invite contributions addressing the
issue from a range of perspectives and using diverse methodological
approaches, including – but not limited to – philosophical,
experimental, corpus-based, and/or CA approaches.

Contributions should consider one or more of the following questions:
 • How common is it for multiple tracks of meaning to be active within
a given communicative encounter? How persistent may such discrepancies
be?
 • To what extent do participants notice discrepancies, and how do
they deal with them if they do notice?
 • How much plurality of meanings can be tolerated before an
interaction breaks down? Are there cross-cultural differences in this
respect?
 • Are there kinds of meaning that are particularly susceptible to
being intended vs interpreted differently by speakers and hearers?
Conversely, are there types of meaning which must be part of common
ground in order for interaction to proceed?
 • When discrepancies fail to surface within the interaction that
triggers them, to what extent can they be shown to have repercussions
for future communicative encounters involving (a subset of) the same
participants? What kinds of repercussions?
 • Is the establishment and continuous maintenance of common ground a
pre-requisite for “genuine” communication to take place, or is it
merely a (possibly more or less culture-bound) philosophical ideal?
How do we define “communication” and “common ground” so as to ensure
sufficient conceptual independence between the two to enable the study
of the interaction between them.
 • To what extent are the notions of common ground and/or plurality of
meanings relevant to human-machine communication? What consequences –
if any – does this form of communication have for theories of meaning
in communication?

Ariel, M. 2019. Different Prominences for Different Inferences. J
Pragm 154: 103-116.
Ariel, M. 2017. What's a reading? P Cap/M Dynel eds. Implicitness:
>From Lexis to Discourse. Benjamins, 15-36.
Elder, Ch-H/M Haugh. 2023. Exposing and avoiding unwanted inferences
in conversational interaction. J Pragm 218, 115-132.
Elder, Ch-H. 2024. Pragmatic Inference: Misunderstandings,
Accountability, Deniability. CUP.
Galantucci, B/G Roberts. 2014. Do we notice when communication goes
awry? An investigation of people’s sensitivity to coherence in
spontaneous conversation, PLOS One 9(7): e103182
Hansen, M-B M/M Terkourafi. 2023. We need to talk about Hearer’s
Meaning! J Pragm 208: 99-114.
Keysar, B. 2008. Egocentric processes in communication and
miscommunication, in Istvan Kecskes & Jacob Mey, eds., Intention,
Common Ground and the Ego-Centric Speaker-Hearer. Mouton de Gruyter,
277-296.
Maillat, D. 2023. Getting your inferences in order: Limiting
variability in pragmatic inferences. J Pragm 205: 157-168.
Sperber, D/D Wilson. 1985. Relevance: Communication and Cognition.
Blackwell.



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