Hi,

Just a reminder that the Cognitive Area Seminar is about to start at 3:30pm in S3/4. There will be Pizza! Esther

** apologies for multiple postings **

(1) Reminder of the McGill Cognitive Area Seminar this week

(2) Journal Blitz in Thomson House at 5pm on Friday (after the Cognitive Area Seminar)

(1) This week, for the Cognitive Area Seminar in Psychology, we're happy to have Nikos Vergis, PostDoc in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders (SCSD), give a talk:

Friday, November 27th, 15h30-17h00

S3/4, Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Dr. Penfield

Effects of Face on the construction of speaker meaning

Nikos Vergis

Face (Goffman 1955, 1959, 1967), the public self-image that individuals project in interaction, has been proposed (Brown & Levinson 1978/1987) as a social psychological principle that motivates the deviation from rational (Gricean) communication. Yet, standard formulations of this principle fail to account for empirical phenomena in which, despite the fact that no Gricean Maxims are flouted, communicators still convey interpersonal meanings (e.g. affiliation) that seem to be at odds with what is said. In this talk, I suggest that Face be treated as a separate source of information from which implicatures can be calculated without recourse to flouts of Maxims. Two experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 confirmed that flouts of the Gricean Maxim of Quality produced inferences in the predicted direction. Experiment 2 manipulated Face concerns in addition to flouts of Quality revealing that perception of speaker meaning is affected as a function of (strong or minimal) face sensitivities.

(2) After the talk, we will gather in Thomson House (3650 Rue McTavish) for the Journal Blitz; join us to tell us about an article you have read recently, hear about what others have read, and discuss (over drinks and nachos).

The seminar and Journal Blitz is open to students, faculty, post-docs, and whoever else who is interested.

Please forward this message to your students and other interested parties.

Esther

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Esther Schott

Graduate Student, MIDC

Department of Psychology

McGill University

http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/labs/midccdem/

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