On Thursday 6th June the Philosophy Faculty will hold an informal half-day workshop on pragmatics, to coincide with a visit by Marina Sbisà (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marina_Sbisa).
The workshop will take place in the Philosophy Board Room (3rd floor of the Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site). Speakers will be sharing work in progress, and time will be equally divided between presentation and discussion. The schedule for the afternoon is as follows: 1-1.45 Marina Sbisà, “Exercitive Speech Acts” 1.45-2.30 Rae Langton, “Informative Presupposition As Back-Door Testimony" 2.30 – 3 Break 3 – 3.45 Annie Bosse, “Asserting Generics” 3.45 – 4.30 Lucy McDonald, “Cat-Calls, Compliments and Accommodation” 4.30 -5.15 Zoe Walker, “Jokes and Speech Acts" 5.30 Drinks (Apologies for any cross-posting.) _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
