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SUMMARY:Is there anyone out there who really is interested in the speaker?
  - Professor I Kecskes (State University of New York\, Albany) 
DTSTART:20130624T150000Z
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CONTACT:Madeleine Forbes
DESCRIPTION:The presentation argues that current pragmatic theories are us
 ually hearer-centered. The reasons of hearer-centeredness are as follows:\
 n1) Misinterpretation of the Gricean implicature\, which is an aspect of s
 peaker meaning rather than a meaning inferred by the hearer.\n2) There has
  developed a powerful theory of utterances interpretation (Relevance Theor
 y) whose focus is mainly on the hearer.\nI will argue that speaker utteran
 ce should be analyzed on its own rights and make three claims:\n1) Speaker
  utterance is not just recipient design. It is the result of the interplay
  of recipient design and salience\, which will be discussed from a socio-c
 ognitive perspective.\n2) In a speaker-focused approach linguistic underde
 terminacy of linguistic signs may not work the way it does in a hearer-cen
 tered approach. The speaker’s utterance from the speaker’s perspective
  is a full proposition and does not need any enrichment and/or saturation.
  Underdeterminacy makes sense only from the hearer’s perspective.\n3) In
  order to get as close as possible to what the speaker actually means we o
 ften need to go beyond utterance.\n\n\n
LOCATION:Room GR06/07\, Faculty of English\, Sidgwick Site\, West Road\, C
 ambridge
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