Workshopbeschreibung: English like is both a mitigator and a mirative expression, which Beltrama & Hanink (2019) consider as two clearly separate functions. However, the fact that one form expresses both functions is no coincidence. In fact, the polyfunctionality of like is strikingly similar to Spanish tipo and como, which are used as non-con trastive focus markers (Mihatsch 2020), and which also seem to appear in mirative contexts (Dessì Schmid et al. to appear). We argue that both miratives and mitigators can facilitate CG updates. Possibly, their common default-switching function might explain the diachronic (and synchronic) link between mitigation and mirativity. This workshop, organized by project B3 and project B4, addresses these questions, focusing on pragmatic markers that are used both as mitigating and mirative devices and we will compare and contrast the effects of mitigation and mirativity for CG management.
Abstract booklet
Programm
Donnerstag, 19. November 2026 (Raum 215)
09:00 – 09:30
Welcome and introduction
09:30 – 10:30
Kate Beeching
Counter-expectation, mirativity and mitigation: the case of en fait
10:30 – 11:00
Kaffeepause
11:00 – 12:00
Laura Kornfeld
De repente as mitigator and mirative marker in colloquial American Spanish
12:00 – 13:00
Andrea Sansò & Ilaria Fiorentini
From allocution to mirativity and mitigation: the pragmatic career of some Italian allocutives
13:00 – 14:30
Mittagessen Buffet im Brechtbau
14:30 – 15:30
Jeanne Vigneron-Bosbach
French DM genre: From Taxonomic noun, Mitigator to Mirative marker?
15:30 – 16:00
Kaffeepause
16:00 – 17:00
Martina Wiltschko(room 027)
From synchronization to common ground. The view from the acquisition of interactional language
17:00 – 18:00
Andrea Beltrama(room 027, online presentation)
From mansplaining to gaslighting. How Common Ground (mis)management generates social stereotypes
19:30
Conference dinner
Restaurant: Historische Weinstube Forelle
Kronenstraße 8, 72070 Tübingen
Freitag, 20. November 2026 (Raum 215)
09:00 – 10:00
Susana Rodríguez Rosique
Exploring the relations between coordination and counter-expectation in information management: The mirative value of ¿¡y eso!? in Spanish
10:00 – 11:00
Caterina Mauri & Antonia Russo
Mirative replies: rejection and confirmation in common ground management
11:00 – 11:30
Kaffeepause
11:30 – 12:30
Nicolás Rivera
Turn-medial puta as a addressee-oriented epistemic marker in Chilean Spanish talk-in-interaction
12:30 – 14:00
Mittagessen
Restaurant: Flavours of India
Mohlstraße 26, 72074 Tübingen
14:00 – 15:00
Patricia Dasí Sanchis, Inga Hennecke, Wiltrud Mihatsch & Valentín Torres
From mitigation to focussing – and back?
15:00 – 16:00
Ivica Bakmaz, Sarah Dessì Schmid, Yannick Piechotta & Evelyn Wiesinger
When Mirativity Meets Mitigation: Triggering Non-Default Updating of the Common Ground
