Underskog

Verbal communication is full of uses of language which are non-literal: metaphor, metonymy, over- and understatement, sarcasm, irony, pretence and the presentation of points of view other than our own. A basic capacity for metarepresentation underlies all our communicative acts and in this workshop we explore the extent to which non-literal language use requires higher levels of metarepresentation.

Programme:

Monday, 15 June

• 9.30 Opening remarks

• 9.45–11.00 Greg Currie: ‘Orienting narration to another’s point of view’

• 11.00–11.15 Coffee/tea
• 11.15–12.30 Robyn Carston: ‘Metaphor, simile and metarepresentation’

• 12.30–13.45 Lunch

• 13.45–14.45 Nausicaa Pouscoulous: ‘Metaphor: for adults only?’

• 14.45–15.45 Catherine Wearing: ‘Pretence, pragmatics, idiom and metaphor’
• 15.45–16.00 Coffee/tea

• 16.00–17.00 Paula Rubio-Fernandez: ‘A third theory of pretense’

• 17.00–18.00 Sam Glucksberg: ‘Moral and media hazards: how metaphors shape thought, affect and action’

Tuesday, 16 June

• 9.30–10.45 Deirdre Wilson: ‘Irony and metarepresentation’

• 10.45–11.00 Coffee/tea

• 11.00–12.15 Kendall Walton: ‘Over- and understatement – are they forms of irony?’

• 12.15–13.30 Lunch

• 13.30–14.30 Coralie Chevallier: ‘Understanding of non-literal language in Autism Spectrum Disorders’

• 14.30–15.45 Elisabeth Camp: ‘Sarcasm, pretending, and saying’

• 15.45–16.00 Tea

• 16.00–17.15 Herb Clark: ‘Depiction as a basic method of communication’