Workshop on ‘Word Meaning, Concepts and Communication’
Cumberland Lodge, 16th-18th September 2005
Friday 16th September:
from 12.00
Registration
12.30-13.30
Lunch
13.45-14.00
Welcome and introductory information
Flitcroft room
Session 1:
14.00-15.30
Flitcroft room
14.00-15.00
15.00-15.30
Robyn Carston (University College London)
‘Lexical pragmatics – is a unified account possible?’
Tim Wharton (University College London)
‘What words mean is a matter of what people mean by them: from
lexical acquisition to lexical pragmatics.’
15.30-16.00
Tea
Session 2:
16.00-18.00
16.00-17.00
Larry Horn (Yale University)
‘Neo-Gricean lexical pragmatics: a Manichean manifesto.’
Reinhard Blutner (Humboldt University, Berlin, and University of Amsterdam)
‘Lexical pragmatics meets embodied cognition: two case studies.’
17.00-18.00
Reception and ante-room
Cumberland room
Chair: Deirdre Wilson (University College London)
Equerries’ room
Chair: Jay Atlas (Pomona College)
18.30
Dinner
Session 3:
20.00-21.00
20.00-21.00
Herb Clark (Stanford University)
‘How the words uh and um work.’
21.00
Drinks reception
Flitcroft room
Cumberland room
Chair: Neil Smith (University College London)
Flitcroft room
Sitting room/
Drawing room
Saturday 17th September:
08.15-09.15
Breakfast
Dining room
Session 4:
09.30-10.30
09.30-10.30
François Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris/CNRS)
‘Saturation and modulation in the interpretation of adjectives.’
10.30-11.00
Coffee
Chair: Rob Stainton (University of Western Ontario)
Flitcroft room
Equerries’ room
Session 5:
11.00-13.00
11.00-12.00
Deirdre Wilson (University College London)
‘Metaphorical interpretation: the ‘emergent property’ issue.’
Rosa Vega Moreno (University College London)
‘Idiom comprehension and the depth of processing of constituent word
meanings.’
Patricia Kolaiti (University College London)
‘Corpus analysis and lexical pragmatics.’
12.00-12.30
12.30-13.00
Chair: Billy Clark (Middlesex University)
13.00-15.00
Lunch
and walks in Windsor Great Park
Session 6:
15.00-16.30
15.00-15.30
Paula Rubio Fernández (University College London)
‘Context-independent information in concepts: An investigation
of the notion of core features’
Sam Glucksberg (Princeton University)
‘Understanding metaphors: Constraints on property attribution.’
15.30-16.30
Chair: Richard Breheny (University College London)
Tea
Session 7:
17.00-18.30
17.00-18.00
Eve Clark (Stanford University)
‘A gradualist theory of word meaning.’
Michael Israel (University of Maryland)
‘Discursive and depictive uses of mental verbs in child English.’
18.30
19.30
Cumberland room
Flitcroft room
Equerries’ room
16.30-17.00
18.00-18.30
Flitcroft room
Chair: Noel Burton-Roberts (University of Newcastle)
Flitcroft room
Equerries’ room
Cumberland room
Drinks
Dinner
Sunday 18th September:
09.00-10.00
Breakfast
Session 8:
10.00-12.30
10.00-10.30
Richard Horsey (University College London)
‘The content of logical concepts.’
George Powell (Kingston University/UCL)
‘Narrowing, loosening and truth-conditional content.’
10.30-11.00
Dining room
Chair: Ruth Kempson (Kings College London)
11.00 -11.30
Coffee
11.30-12.30
Dan Sperber (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris/CNRS)
‘Intuitive and reflective concepts.’
12.45-14.15
Buffet lunch
and round-table discussion led by Steven Gross (Georgetown University)
Flitcroft room
Equerries’ room
Flitcroft room
Dining room