Speech Acts, Scientific Discoveries, and Linguistic Etiolation

A One-Day Workshop Speech Acts, Scientific Discoveries, and Linguistic Etiolation, Szczecin, 27^th October 2022

Speakers:

• Jan G. Michel (Department of Philosophy/DCLPS, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf),
• Maciej Witek (Institute of Philosophy and Cognitive Science/CCRG, University of Szczecin).

Venue: Institute of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Szczecin, Krakowska Street 71-79, Szczecin, room 091. If you are interested in participating in the workshop, you are kindly asked to register before 26^th October, 4.00 pm by writing to mateusz.wlodarczyk@usz.edu.pl. 

Program:

• 09.15-10.15, Jan G. Michel, From Surprise and Confoundment to New Knowledge. Speech Acts between Imagination, Narrative Fiction, and Scientific Discourse [abstract] [presentation]
• 10.15-10.45, coffee break
• 10.45-11.45, Maciej Witek, Linguistic Etiolation in Irony, Insinuation, and Audience-Indirection [abstract] [presentation]

Suggested readings:

• Michel, Jan G., Toward a Philosophy of Scientific Discovery. In: Making Scientific Discoveries: Interdisciplinary Reflections, J.G. Michel (ed.), pp. 9–53, Brill 2022. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783957437044_003 
• Mękarska, Janina, and Witek, Maciej, 2020. Echo and pretence in communicative irony. Studia Semiotyczne — English Supplement 31, 149-177. https://doi.org/10.26333/stsen.xxxi.06 (Polish version: Mękarska, Janina, and Witek, Maciej, 2019. Echo i udawanie w ironii komunikacyjnej. Studia Semiotyczne 33(2), 369-394. http://dx.doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxiii2.13)
• Witek, Maciej, 2022. Irony as a speech action. Journal of Pragmatics 190, 76-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.01.010