Reading for Relevance Archive 2023-24

Semester 1

4 October 2023Nadal and Chatterjee (2019)Neuroaesthetics and art’s diversity and universality
11 and 18 October 2023Sperber and Wilson (2015)Beyond speaker’s meaning
25 October 2023Sasamoto (2016)Onomatopoeia: Showing word or saying word? RT, lexis and the communication of impressions
1 November 2023Carston (2023)The relevance of words and the language/communication divide
8 November 2023Yus (2018)Attaching feelings and emotions to propositions. Some insights on irony and internet communication
15 November 2023Kolaiti (2020)Perceptual relevance and art
22 and 29 November 2023Sperber (1996/75)Why are perfect animals, hybrids, and monsters food for symbolic thought?
6 December 2023Scott (2021)Memes as multimodal metaphors
13 December 2023Carston and Yan (2023)Metaphor processing: Referring and predicating

Semester 2

31 January 2024Invited Speaker: Kate Scott (Kingston)The Relevance of Storytelling
7 February 2024Van de Henst and Sperber (2012)Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance
14 February 2024McCallum (2022)Mathematics, relevance theory and the situated cognition paradigm
21 February 2024Ifantidou (2021)Non-propositional effects in verbal communication: The case of metaphor
28 February 2024Wilson (2024)Relevance theory and context
6 March 2024Storberck and Clore (2007)On the interdependence of cognition and emotion
13 March 2024Heinz and Scott-Phillips (2023)Expression unleashed: The evolutionary and cognitive foundations of human communication
20 March 2024Williams (2021)Theory of autistic mind: A renewed relevance theoretic perspective on the so-called autistic pragmatic ‘impairment’
17 April 2024Marr (1982)Vision
24 April 2024Samur et al. (2021)Getting lost in a story: How narrative engagement emerges from narrative perspective and individual differences in alexithymia
8 May 2024Invited speaker: Dr Agnieszka Piskorska (University of Warsaw)
15 May 2024Invited speaker: Dr Mengyang QiuAffects and procedures: Communicating emotions in classical Chinese poetry