Colloquium Talk: Kate Ritchie (UCI)

Social Structural Pragmatics Abstract: Significant work in pragmatics makes use of social structural explanation. Yet, there is a disconnect between these pragmatic theories and the formal frameworks that are commonly used to build models that represent pragmatic phenomena. Such frameworks typically represent just at the level of individual psychological facts (such as propositional attitudes, preference orderings, attentional states, or intentions). We argue that to reveal patterns among similarly situated linguistic agents and to capture how agents’ linguistic behavior may depend upon and u…