<div dir="ltr">Friends of Sociolinguistics and Socio Lab members,<div><br></div><div>Don't miss this upcoming Linguistics colloquium talk that brings together semantics/pragmatics and Third Wave sociolinguistics. </div><div><br></div><div>Suzanne<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: smit2297 <<a href="mailto:smit2297@msu.edu">smit2297@msu.edu</a>><br>Date: Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 2:22 PM<br>Subject: [lin-colloq] Michigan State University Linguistics Colloquium - Eric Acton (November 16th)<br>To: <a href="mailto:lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu">lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu">lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu</a>><br>Cc: Nelson, Scott James <<a href="mailto:nelso672@msu.edu">nelso672@msu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>
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This is a reminder from the MSU Linguistics Colloquium Committee that our next colloquium is this Thursday, November 16th at 4:30pm, in B342 Wells Hall. Our speaker is Professor Eric Acton (Eastern Michigan University), whose talk is titled "A socio-pragmatic
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<b>A socio-pragmatic framework for non-entailed meaning</b></p>
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<div>Both pragmatics and the third-wave (Eckert 2012) variationist sociolinguistics have long recognized that the significance of utterances stretches far beyond their entailments (e.g. Grice 1975, Labov 1963). But despite their kindred interests—How, in all
its indeterminacy, is meaning made in situated use, and what are the underlying dynamics?—the two traditions have proceeded largely in silos. In this talk, I develop a socio-pragmatic framework for non-literal meaning that builds on the insights of these traditions,
while bridging and expanding their empirical reach. </div>
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Pragmatics (e.g. Grice 1975) offers the foundational insight that the full significance of an utterance depends not only upon its semantics, but also upon considering the utterance’s apparent costs and benefits vis-à-vis those of relevant alternatives. But
with the exception of research on politeness (e.g. Brown & Levinson 1987), the great bulk of pragmatics research: (i) concerns inferences that involve directly enriching an utterance’s descriptive content; and (ii) operationalizes costs and benefits as morphosyntactic
complexity and semantic informativity, respectively. At the same time, third-wave sociolinguistics has demonstrated that a great deal of meaning is not tied to descriptive, semantic content at all, and comes from varied sources—from the phonetic realization
of a phoneme (e.g. Benor 2001 on /t/) to voice quality (e.g. Podesva 2007 on falsetto). Moreover, sociolinguistics foregrounds the wide range of social considerations that condition language use and interpretation, extending well beyond formal complexity and
semantic informativity.</div>
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Marrying the insights from both traditions, I develop a framework that accounts for not only classic cases of non-entailed meaning like scalar implicature, but a wide and diverse range of phenomena besides; among them, the effect whereby using a the-plural
(e.g. the Americans) to talk about a group of individuals tends to depict that group as a monolith distant from the speaker (cf. the bare plural Americans). The picture I develop here leads us to expect to find complex and varied interactions across and within
multiple dimensions of meaning—social and or not, conversational or conventional, entailed or associative, and so on—and makes clear the deep interconnections between semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.</div>
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