A one-day seminar with Marco Mazzone (University of Catania) and Maciej Witek (US)
When
Friday, 17 April 2026, 09.30 — 13.00
Where
Institute of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Szczecin, ul. Krakowska 71-79, Szczecin; room: to be announced
Goals
This seminar brings together two complementary perspectives that invite us to rethink the traditional Gricean model of communication. Recent work on cooperation and conflict in interaction, together with new analyses of insinuation, suggests that communication cannot be fully explained in terms of overt intentions and cooperative principles alone, and calls for incorporating elements of the Austinian approach. By examining layers of cooperation and forms of insinuation, the seminar sheds light on the subtle, often non-overt mechanisms that shape human communication in everyday and institutional contexts.
Programme
- 09.30 — 11.00, Marco Mazzone, Grice’s Cooperative Principle in the Face of a Multilayered Model of Communication
- 11.30 — 13.00, Maciej Witek, What insinuation reveals about the nature of communication
More info:
http://ccrg.usz.edu.pl/rethinking-communication-layers-of-cooperation-and-forms-of-insinuation/
Registration, deadline till 15.04:
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