Department Colloquium: From sound to meaning: The neuropragmatics of prosody
Time
Thursday, 12. May 2022
11:45 - 13:15
Location
G 307
Organizer
Department of Linguistics
Speaker:
Daniela Sammler
During verbal communication, humans regularly decode not only what is said but also why. Pragmatic theory posits that it is particularly the why – the communicative intention (illocution) of speakers – that drives the recipient’s reactions (Grice, 1957). Intonational phonologists (Bolinger, 1986) and developmental psychologists (Malloch & Trevarthen, 2009) have long been aware of the importance of prosody for communicating social-relational (illocutionary) meaning.