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Come riusciamo a cogliere l’umorismo o il significato di un gioco di parole? In che modo riusciamo a seguire un dialogo in diversi contesti sociali? Come si sviluppa la capacità dei bambini di comprendere l’ironia? Quali sono i meccanismi cerebrali che ci permettono di capire una metafora? Perché alcuni pazienti hanno difficoltà a capire il significato implicito?
 
A queste e altre domande cercheranno di rispondere i 64 relatori della terza Conferenza di pragmatica sperimentale XPRAG.it 2019, che si terrà il 19 e il 20 settembre nell'aula Roberto Coroneo della Cittadella dei Musei. Le sessioni saranno aperte da quattro esperti di fama internazionale in pragmatica sperimentale, provenienti da Stati Uniti e Gran Bretagna: Deirdre Wilson (University College London), Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh), Courtenay Norbury (University College London) e Raymond Gibbs (Cognitive Scientist and former Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz).

L’evento e il coordinamento del simposio è presieduto da un comitato nazionale formato da Francesca Ervas (Università di Cagliari e Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, France - nella foto a lato), Valentina Bambini (IUSS Pavia) e Filippo Domaneschi (Università di Genova).

Oltre a Francesca Ervas, a livello locale l’organizzazione ha impegnato in particolare lo staff di docenti e studiosi formato da Barnali Chaudhary, Roberta Cocco, Roberta Fadda, Rachele Fanari, Elisabetta Gola, Alice Guerrieri, Amitash Ojha, Maria Grazia Rossi, Antonio Ledda, Antonio Pierro, Pietro Salis, Giuseppe Sergioli, Pietro Storari e Daniela Francesca Virdis.

THURSDAY, September 19
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9:00 - 9:45 Registration and Welcoming
9:45 - 10:00 Introduction
 
Chair: Francesca Ervas
10:00 - 11:00 Deirdre Wilson (Invited speaker) Understanding metonymy
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50 Simona Di Paola, Eleonora Marocchini, Marco Mazzone and Filippo Domaneschi 'Some words are mosquitos in the night' - Literalness in metaphor interpretation
11:50 - 12:10 Giorgio Arcara, Silvia Di Tomasso, Elisabetta Tonini, Stefano Vicentin, Francesco Piccione and Valentina Bambini P600 in Metaphor comprehension is mostly associated with activation in the left hemisphere: a MEG study
12:10 - 12:30 Paola Del Sette, Federica Bianco, Chiara Basile, Elisabetta Tonini, Valentina Bambini and Serena Lecce Investigating the relationship between theory of mind and metaphor understanding: A training study
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Chair: Filippo Domaneschi
14:00 - 15:00 Martin Pickering (Invited speaker) Understanding dialogue: Language use and social interaction
15:00 - 15:20 Nicole Gotzner and Diana Mazzarella
Politeness and negative strengthening
15:20 - 15:40 Lea Fricke, Carla Bombi, Malte Zimmermann and Edgar Onea New evidence for intermediate exhaustive readings of wh-questions
15:40 - 16:00 John Michael Tomlinson and Ina Baier When do turn-taking gaps become meaningful
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 Poster Session
 
Chair: Elisabetta Gola
17:30 - 17:50 Maria Spychalska Order and relevance: Revising temporal structures
17:50 - 18:10 Joanna Blochowiak, Cristina Grisot and Liesbeth Degand Is 'car' more objective after all? An experimental investigation and corpus-based analysis of French causal connectives 'car' and 'parce que'
18:10 - 18:30 Fredrik Heinat and Eva Klingvall Quantifying expressions and the processing of anaphoric reference

FRIDAY, September 20
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Chair: Valentina Bambini
9:10 - 10:10 Courtenay Norbury (Invited speaker)? Connections between Pragmatics and structural language skills in typical and atypical development
10:10 - 10:30 Franziska Köder and Ingrid Lossius Falkum Speaking ironically: Does tone of voice influence children's understanding?
10:30 - 10:50 Francesca Panzeri, Sara Cavicchiolo, Beatrice Giustolisi, Paola Ajmone, Paola Vizziello, Veronica Donnini and Umberto Ambrosetti Irony comprehension in children with cochlear implants
10:50 - 11:10 Maria Garraffa and Francesca La Morgia Pragmatic abilities in young adults bilingual speakers with a minority language: profiling linguistics competence and bilingual experience

11:10-11:40 Coffee break

11:10 - 12:30 Pre-Registration Poster Session

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Chair: Maria Grazia Rossi
14:00 - 15:00 Raymond Gibbs (Invited speaker) The past, the present, and the future of Experimental Pragmatics: A very personal view
15:00 - 15:20 Marta Bosia, Giulia Agostoni, Luca Bischetti, Margherita Bechi, Mariachiara Buonocore, Roberto Cavallaro, Serena Lecce and Valentina Bambini Seriously funny jokes to investigate humor understanding and appreciation in schizophrenia
15:20 - 15:40 Luca Bischetti, Paolo Canal, Chiara Bertini, Irene Ricci, Serena Lecce and Valentina Bambini P600 differences in joke processing: types of incongruity and Theory of Mind
15:40 - 16:00 Francesca Marina Bosco, Dize Hilviu, Ilaria Gabbatore and Alberto Parol Pragmatic assessment in healthy aging: A cognitive approach

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

Chair: Filippo Domaneschi
16:30 - 16:50 Marta Tagliani, Chiara Melloni, Denis Delfitto and Daniele Panizza The saliency of the mentioned argument facilitates the processing of negation: A Visual World study
16:50 - 17:10 Alberto Parola and Francesca M. Bosco An eye-tracking investigation of the cognitive processes involved in comprehension of simple and complex communicative acts
17:10 - 17:30 Greta Mazzaggio, Anne Reboul, Chiara Caretta, Mélody Darblade, Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst, Anne Cheylus and Penka Stateva On the cost of scalar implicatures: An eye-tracking study
17:30 - 17:50 Daniele Panizza and Maik Thalmann Adults are not always faster than children. An eye-tracking study on the online comprehension of indirect scalar implicatures

17:50-18:10 Break and Meeting of the XPRAG.it Award Committee

18:10 - 18:30 Announcement of the XPRAG.it Award Recipient and of the next XPRAG.it Events

POSTERS
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- Elisabetta Tonini, Paola Del Sette, Federica Bianco, Paolo Canal, Serena Lecce and Valentina Bambini “The parrot knows its speech by heart”: The role of ToM in children’s metaphor comprehension in referential contexts
- Claudia Roberta Combei, Lucia Busso and Ottavia Tordini Discourses of violence: corpus-based investigations of women representations in Italian media
Aaron Shield and Greta Mazzaggio What a pro-drop language can tell us about pronouns’ use in high-functioning ASD children: the case of Italian
- Barnali Chaudhary, Elisabetta Gola and Francesca Ervas Humor in Visual mode
- Dize Hilviu, Alberto Parola, Patrizia Consolino and Francesca Bosco Communicative-pragmatic ability development in children with Cochlear Implants
- Ricardo Garcia, Guillermo Soto, Francisco Aliste, Sergio Astroza and Albert Astudillo Social cognition and pragmatic abilities in the first episode of schizophrenia: a neuropsychological study
- Valentina Cuccio, Martina Montalti and Vittorio Gallese On the embodiment of negation
- Greta Mazzaggio, Eleonora Marocchini, Simona Di Paola and Filippo Domaneschi Indirect Speech Acts in High Functioning Autism
- Josh Reed and Adina Camelia Bleotu Strict quantifier spreading readings vary with manner of presentation, but not with changes in color or size
- Elena Albu Not Known: Anonymous, Unknown or Non-known? Remarks on the Interpretation of Negated Absolute Adjectives
- Adina Camelia Bleotu What coloring can tell us about the acquisition of scalar epistemic adverbs in Child Romanian
- Giulia Agostoni, Luca Bischetti, Margherita Bechi, Mariachiara Buonocore, Roberto Cavallaro, Serena Lecce, Valentina Bambini and Marta Bosia Physical and mental metaphor interpretation: Relationship with Theory of Mind in patients affected by schizophrenia
- Yui Miura Children’s interpretation of conventionalized pragmatic marker: A case of Japanese restrictive particle dake
- Viviana Haase, Maria Spychalska and Markus Werning Investigating the comprehension of negated sentences employing world knowledge: an event-related potential study
- Chiara Mazzocconi, Gulun Jin, Judit Gervain, Sophie K. Scott and Jonathan Ginzburg Laughter processing in conversation: a pilot f-NIRS study
- Tamar Kalandadze, Johan Braeken, Cecilia Brynskov and Kari-Anne Bottegaard Næss Difficulties in Metaphor Comprehension: A Hallmark of Autism Spectrum Disorder or of Poor Structural Language Ability?
- Jonathon Coltz, Dustin Chacón, Jason Overfelt and Brian Reese Particles and polarity in ‘bad’ and ‘good’ Hurford Conditionals
- Magdalena Roszkowski, Viola Schmitt, Maik Thalmann and Daniele Panizza On the role of distribuitivity in the online comprehension of VP-conjunction
- Mingya Liu and Paola Gega Multiple Sources of Imprecision in Numerical Expressions
- Roberta Cocco, Antonio Pierro and Francesca Ervas An argumentative approach to the affective aspects of irony production vs. understanding

- Mirella Manfredi, Alice Mado Proverbio, Lucas Murrins Martin, Beatriz Ribeiro, Letícia Yumi Nakao Morello and Paulo Sergio Boggio Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation of MPFC enhances humor comprehension

- Anton Benz and Nicole Gotzner Embedded implicatures in comprehension and production

 
PRE-REGISTRATION POSTERS
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- Juliane Schwab, Mingya Liu and Jutta L. Mueller Expectation-based sentence processing in prospective NPI licensing
- Chiara Calderone, Lara Mantovan, Beatrice Giustolisi and Francesca Panzeri How to recognize ironic remarks. The role of non-manual markers, corporal expressions and prosody
- Alberto Parola, Francesca M. Bosco and Riccardo Fusaroli Modelling Vocal Expression in Schizophrenia (MOVES)
- Kevin Demiddele, Tom Heyman and Walter Schaeken The processing costs of “to the left of” versus “immediately to the left of” readings
- Filippo Domaneschi, Robert Reinecke and Simona Di Paola The ERP signature of presupposition triggers
- Maria Alice Baraldi, Simona Di Paola and Filippo Domaneschi Pragmatic abilities in early Parkinson’s Disease
- Pietro Mingardi and Francesco Vespignani A new paradigm to study the processing of negations in graded felicity contexts
- Francesca Ervas, Maria Grazia Rossi, Amitash Ojha, Valentina Favrin and Bipin Indurkhya The double framing effect of emotive metaphors in argumentation
- Sandy Ciroux A Word about Gestures
- Cristina Grisot and Hannah Rohde On predicting temporal relations: assessing the role of verbal tenses and lexical aspect
- Paolo Canal, Luca Bischetti, Giacomo Ranieri, Elisabetta Tonini and Valentina Bambini Electrophysiological correlates of picturing metaphors: The role of modality and mental imagery in processing
- Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos and Pia Knoeferle Understanding metaphors in object positions: Testing competing theories and investigating the interaction of context and lexically-encoded verb knowledge

Al termine delle due giornate di lavori sarà anche consegnato il premio in denaro XPRAG.it Young Researcher Award, sponsorizzato  dalla Scuola Universitaria Superiore di Pavia e aggiudicato dal Comitato organizzatore alla migliore presentazione curata da giovani laureati con dottorato di ricerca conseguito da non oltre due anni.