Lecture
Language as shaped by and for social interaction
- Date
- Friday 7 October 2022
- Time
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 133
Abstract
Language is underpinned by cognition and biology, but it comes alive in social interaction. In this talk I survey ongoing work in our collaborative project Elementary Particles of Conversation, in which we investigate how the smallest words streamline social interaction and scaffold complex language. I will discuss recent work on pragmatic reasoning and interactive repair, argue that interjections need better representation in descriptive linguistics, and share some recent results of our quest to combine corpus-based, comparative and computational methods to the study of language in social interaction.