Workshop organized by project C5
When: 29. Juni 2026, 13:00-17:00 Uhr
Where: R. 215, Brechtbau, Wilhelmstraße 50, 72074 Tübingen
Workshop Description: This interdisciplinary linguistic-literary workshop investigates how (multiple) common ground(s) and updates interact in the interpretation of literary texts. Research has shown that linguistic mechanisms apply in literary texts in the same way as they apply in other types of utterances or texts. Besides a general investigation of this perspective, a focus of the workshop is the fruitfulness of theories of communication based on the common ground. Literature serves as an interesting example for complex common ground architectures: reading a text involves multiple common grounds, those internal to the story and those external to the story. We will consider possible inferences that the reader can draw from such configurations. In addition to presentations, we will hold a panel discussion on the role of linguistics for the study of literary texts on the one hand, and the role of literary texts for theory building in linguistics, especially linguistic pragmatics, on the other hand.
Confirmed Speakers:
- Merel Semeijn (University of Groningen): Common Ground in non-face-to-face settings.
- Nicolai Dominik Dascalu (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Source-Indexed Common Grounds and Pragmatic Grounding: The Case of Fictional Import
- Paul Zodl (University of Tübingen, project C5): Interpretive Differences across Diverging Common Grounds
Please send an email to caroline.spetzgerspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de if you'd like to register for the workshop.
