Perspective Taking in Language

Workshop Description

Welcome to PeTaL, an online workshop on Perspective Taking in Language, June 23-24, organized by Petra Hendriks, Emar Maier and Jorrig Vogels at the CLCG, University of Groningen. This workshop is held in connection with the Frontiers Research Topic Perspective Taking in Language. Research topic contributors will pitch their contribution, or give a sneak preview of a new project they're working on. The workshop will be held in a virtual conference space we'll design in Gather.town. This virtual space will allow in addition to the pitches and previews some socializing and informal topical discussions in small breakout groups.

Registration is free and open for all interested. just fill in your email in this google form and we'll send you the link/password to the conference room a few days in advance. We've closed the registration form (June 21). If you want to register, just send an email to e.maier@rug.nl. All participants who had already registered through the google form should have gotten a bcc'ed instruction email. Check your spam and then contact us if you didn't get it.

Contact: e.maier@rug.nl

Program

This is the final program, last updated June 23, all times in Amsterdam/Berlin/Paris timezone.

Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 13:00-18:00

13:00-13:25 Petra Hendriks, Emar Maier, Jorrig Vogels: Introduction

13:25-13:50 Sonja Zeman ‘What is a perspective?’ (sneak preview)

Break(-out)

14:20-14:45 Stefan Hinterwimmer, Cornelia Ebert, Umesh Patil ‘On the interaction of linguistic and gestural perspective-taking’ (sneak preview)

14:45-15:10 Lena Wimmer, Stacie Friend, Greg Currie, Heather Ferguson ‘Reading Fictional Narratives to Improve Social and Moral Cognition: The Influence of Narrative Perspective, Transportation, and Identification’ (pitch)

Break(-out)

15:40-16:05 Ingrid Lossius Falkum, Franziska Köder ‘Irony and perspective-taking in children: The roles of norm violations and tone of voice’

16:05-16:30 Isabel Neitzel, Martina Penke ‘Mental state verbs as a measure of perspective taking in narrations of individuals with Down syndrome’

Break(-out)

17:00-17:25 Elsi Kaiser ‘Consequences of sensory modality for perspective-taking: Comparing visual, olfactory and gustatory perception’

17:25-17:50 Jesse Harris ‘Extended perspective shift in language processing’

Thursday, June 24, 2021, 13:00-18:00

13:00-13:25 (cancelled)

13:25-13:50 Andreas Stokke ‘Here and There’ (sneak preview)

Break(-out)

14:20-14:45 Stef Spronck, Daniela Casartelli ‘In a manner of speaking: how reported speech may have shaped grammar’ (pitch)

14:45-15:10 Arie Verhagen ‘Unsolvable ambiguities’

Break(-out)

15:40-16:05 Edmundo Kronmüller, Ernesto Guerra ‘Processing Speaker-Specific Information in Two Stages During the Interpretation of Referential Precedents’ (pitch)

16:05-16:30 Si On Yoon, Kyong-sun Jin, Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Cynthia L. Fisher ‘What’s new to you? Preschoolers' partner-specific online processing of disfluency’ (pitch)

Break(-out)

17:00-17:25 Henrik Bergqvist ‘Egophoricity and perspective in spoken Swedish’

17:00-17:25 Barbara Dancygier ‘Viewpoint construction in internet memes’ (sneak preview)

17:25-17:50 Final discussion