Projects around the intersection of sociolinguistics and computational pragmatics
Yoon, E. J., Tessler, M. H., Goodman, N. D., & Frank, M. C. (2017). "I won't lie, it wasn't amazing": Modeling polite indirect speech. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Yoon, E. J., Tessler, M. H., Goodman, N. D., & Frank, M. C. (2016). Talking with tact: Politeness as a balance between informativity and kindness. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Jeong, Sunwoo. 2017b. Iconization of sociolinguistic variables: The case of archetypal female characters in classic Hollywood cinema. In Dimensions of Iconicity. (eds.) Angelika Zirker, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer, and Christina Ljungberg. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 263-286.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 12/08/17 | MH Tessler | politeness and indirect speech |
| 12/15/17 | Reuben Cohn-Gordon | models of higher-order indexicality |
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RSA tutorial(s)
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Sunwoo Jeong -- politeness effects of English rising declaratives
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Judith Degen -- QUD analysis of interpretation of "Black lives matter"
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Chantal Gratton?
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Robert Xu?
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cross-linguistic politeness project: do cookies rating experiments from Yoon et al 2016/2017 with different groups of speakers (Japanese, German, Romanian) -- do inferred weights on social goal differ? Does ordering generalize to other tasks? --> quantification of potential cross-linguistic/cross-cultural differences in (at least one dimension of) politeness
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Can we model Robert's / Katherine's / Sunwoo's "stereotypical character" speech datasets with RSA?
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What is the distinction between meanings that should be made, if any (given that they appear to be dependent on each other at least sometimes, eg in the polite cookies case)?
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epistemic / social?
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indexical / truth-conditional?
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How much strategic control is there over how speakers express variables? (Is this a well-formed question?)