Reading for Relevance Archive 2021-2022

Semester 1

6 October 2021Invited speaker: Dr Pia Pilcher (Goldsmiths):I’ve got a daughter now man it’s clean man” Heteroglossic and intersectional construction of fatherhood in the spontaneous talk of a group of young southeast London men.
20 October 2021Fabb (2021)Experiences of ineffable significances
27 October 2021Invited speaker: Prof. Paul BakerThe story of Polari: Britain’s secret gay language
3 November 2021Ortony (2021)Are all ‘basic emotions’ emotions? A problem for the (basic) emotions construct
24 November 2021Invited speaker: Dr Nigel Fabb (Strathclyde)Aesthetic experience as surprise
1 December 2021Invited speaker: Prof Didier Maillat (Fribourg)On the strength and accessibility of contextual assumptions
8 December 2021Invited speaker: Dr Federica Formato (Brighton)Women, crime and gender in the private sphere: Femminicidio (from Gender, discourse and ideology in Italian)

Semester 1

16 February 2022Hart (2013)Argumentation meets adapted cognition: Manipulation in media discourse on immigration
23 February 2022Wharton, Bonard, Dukes, Sander and Oswald (2021)Relevance and emotion
9 March 2022Jones (2015)Classifier constructions as procedural referring expressions in American Sign Language
16 March 2022Piskorska (2011)Cognition and emotions – jointly contributing to positive cognitive effects?
23 March 2022Jary (1998)Is relevance theory asocial?
30 March 2022Wilson (2018)Relevance theory and literary interpretation
6 April 2022Invited speaker: Prof Hart (Lancaster):The cognitive semiotics of protest reporting
11 May 2022Pilcher and Markowitz (2022)Sexism in Facebook discourse about clergy misconduct
18 May 2022Wilson (2018)Relevance theory and literary
25 May 2022Fodor (2007)The revenge of the given
1 June 2022Nanay (2015)Perceptual representation/ perceptual content
15 June 2022Invited speaker: Dr Ryoko Sasamoto (Dublin City)Emoji and reaction gifs: Perceptual resemblance and the communication of emotion