35.3196, FYI: Short online talk "The Cognitive Trinity of Common Ground" (DiscoMatiX online Autumn series) on Tuesday 19th November

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Subject: 35.3196, FYI: Short online talk "The Cognitive Trinity of Common Ground" (DiscoMatiX online Autumn series) on Tuesday 19th November

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Date: 12-Nov-2024
From: Clare Patterson [clare.s.patterson at warwick.ac.uk]
Subject: Short online talk "The Cognitive Trinity of Common Ground" (DiscoMatiX online Autumn series) on Tuesday 19th November


DiscoMatiX is delighted to announce the next speaker in our online
Autumn series, Paula Rubio-Fernández (Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics), who will give a talk entitled "The Cognitive
Trinity of Common Ground" (abstract below). Please join us on Tuesday
19th November at 4pm CET. As usual, the meeting format is a 20-25
minute talk, followed by 20-25 minutes of discussion. We meet on Zoom,
to get the link for this meeting please email us on
discomatix.group at gmail.com. We hope to see you there! See our website
for more info: https://discomatix.github.io/meetings.html

Abstract:
Human communication is built around interlocutors’ common ground (CG),
or the information they assume to share. Despite having been the focus
of intense interdisciplinary research for more than 60 years, we do
not yet understand how CG works, or even what exactly it is. In this
talk I will introduce a new research program that is essential to
understanding CG: I propose to study CG as a product of cultural
evolution. This approach requires identifying (i) those cognitive
capacities that are required for the emergence of CG in human
cognition, and (ii) how those capacities interact in (a) the
development of CG through children’s social learning across cultures;
(b) its formation through social interaction across the lifespan, and
(c) its management in conversation across languages. I hypothesize
that forming and using CG is a complex human ability that emerges from
the interaction of three cognitive capacities — joint attention,
shared memory, and the use of reference systems — under a rationality
principle. This is what I informally call the Cognitive Trinity of
Common Ground, which could also be described as a naïve model of
rational memory.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics




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