Workshop "Pragmatics and Testimony"

Trieste, 5-6 November 2015

Scientific committee: Marina Sbisà (Trieste), Annalisa Coliva (Modena-Reggio), Paolo Labinaz (Trieste)

Invited speakers: Jennifer Saul (Sheffield), Andreas Stokke (Umeå), Annalisa Coliva (Modena-Reggio)

Program

Abstracts

Call for papers

We welcome presentation proposals on the following topics:
- the role of trust in linguistic communication
- assertion as a speech act (assertion and commitment, assertion and knowledge)
- testimony and speech acts (commissives, expressives..)
- testimony and evidentials
- epistemic authority and other kinds of authority
- epistemic injustice
- testimony and presupposition
- testimony and implicating
- insincerity, lying and misleading

Abstracts (between 2000 and 3000 characters, references included) should be sent to Paolo Labinaz plabinaz@units.it

Deadline: July 10 2015

Acceptance will be notified by July 31.