36.1671, FYI: DiscoMatiX hosts online talk by Hannah Rohde on 10th June, entitled "Why am I saying this?"

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Subject: 36.1671, FYI: DiscoMatiX hosts online talk by Hannah Rohde on 10th June, entitled "Why am I saying this?"

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Date: 27-May-2025
From: Clare Patterson [clare.s.patterson at warwick.ac.uk]
Subject: DiscoMatiX hosts online talk by Hannah Rohde on 10th June, entitled "Why am I saying this?"


DiscoMatiX is delighted to be hosting a short talk from Hannah Rohde
(University of Edinburgh), with the title "Why am I saying this?
Sensible and informative contributions to discourse" (abstract below).
The talk will take place on Tuesday 10th June, 16:00 CEST on Zoom. As
usual, the session is around 50 minutes, with 25 minutes for the talk
and 25 minutes for a lively discussion. All are welcome to join -
email discomatix.group at gmail.com to get the Zoom link.
We hope to see you there! For further information about DiscoMatiX,
please see our website: https://discomatix.github.io/
Abstract: For a conversation to be coherent, we expect more than just
a sequence of arbitrary sentences – we expect the sentences to connect
in predictable and sensible ways. At the same time, if everything a
speaker said were entirely predictable, there’d be no new information
conveyed. These two expectations – one for plausibility, one for
informativity – are two key components that underlie cooperative
communication. This talk presents a series of case studies on what
speakers choose to talk about and what forms they use, with subsequent
tests of how such choices in turn influence comprehenders’
expectations, notably when they’re estimating what words are coming
next and when they’re trying to recover a speaker’s intended meaning.

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




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