Στο πλαίσιο της σειράς διαλέξεων «Σεμινάρια του ΠΜΣ/ΔΠΜΣ»
που διοργανώνει το ΠΜΣ «Αγγλική Γλώσσα, Γλωσσολογία και Μετάφραση» σε
συνεργασία με το ΔΠΜΣ «Μετάφραση: Ελληνική, Αγγλική, Ρωσική» θα δοθεί διάλεξη
την Παρασκευή, 19 Δεκεμβρίου στις 12 μμ στην
Αίθουσα 209 της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής. Θα ακολουθήσει κέρασμα.
Προσκεκλημένη ομιλήτρια: Prof. Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University)
Τίτλος της διάλεξης: "What Hearer’s Meaning is (and what it is not)"
In previous work, we defended the necessity for theories of meaning in communication to
take into account hearers’ interpretations – what we call “Hearer’s Meaning” – as distinct
from speakers’ communicative intentions. Accordingly, we propose a model of Hearer’s
Meaning based on a set of seven sources of information, which we suggest hearers jointly
draw on to derive their interpretations. Our point in defocusing the speaker's intention is
precisely to shift attention away from what goes on inside the speaker’s head and refocus
it instead to what the hearer takes the speaker’s utterance to mean, irrespective of
whether the speaker meant it or not. Hearers are not objective interpreters and Hearer’s
Meaning is not disinterested. Rather, hearers project their own expectations,
subjectivities, and agendas into their interpretations of speaker’s utterances. In this sense,
each interpretation bears the signature of the hearer who derived it. This agrees with an
argumentative agenda as the reason for engaging in interaction (and further, in
reasoning).
Bionote
Marina Terkourafi is Professor and Chair of Sociolinguistics at the University of Leiden
(Center for Linguistics). Her research is focused on the social parameters that constrain
the generation of meanings locally (socio-pragmatics), the psycholinguistic processes by
which these meanings are acquired and implemented in real time (experimental
pragmatics), and the historical processes that shape the interactional potential of
language resources over time (historical pragmatics). She has served as Co-Editor in Chief
for the Journal of Pragmatics (2017-2021) and a member of the editorial boards of
Pragmatics & Cognition, the International Review of Pragmatics, the Journal of Politeness
Research, the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, and Lodz Papers in Pragmatics.
Organisers: Ass. Prof. Anna Piata & Dr. Vassiliki Geka
