For conference presentations and other talks and invited lectures since 2014 see my Academia site.

List of talks:

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES, PLENARY, PUBLIC AND INVITED LECTURES

2024

• ‘Philosophical foundations of meaning, metapragmatics, and the life of concepts’. Pragmasophia 4, 4th International Conference on Pragmatics and Philosophy, Messina   (inaugural keynote)

• ‘Semanticizing speech acts and the limit of naturalization of meaning’. Pragmasophia 4, 4th International Conference on Pragmatics and Philosophy, Messina

• ‘Metasemantics, metapragmatics, and philosophical foundations of meaning: The case of humanism’. Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy research group, University of Cambridge

• ‘Representing discourse meaning: Default Semantics and functional propositions’. Jagiellonian University, Kraków

2023

• ‘Tensed and tenseless languages and the nature of time’. Linguistics Society of India conference (ICOSLI-45), Aligarh Muslim University (inaugural keynote)

• ‘The flow of time: From emergentism to cultural relativity’. First Conference of the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest (keynote)

•  ‘Dynamic functional proposition for dynamic discourse meaning’ (with C.-H. Elder, invited)

Dynamic Pragmatics Association Workshop, Osaka University

Philosophy of Language Seminar, University of Łódź

Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy research group, University of Cambridge

• ‘Tensed and tenseless languages for tenseless reality: The importance of cross-linguistic data in the philosophy of time’. The Philological Society, UK

2022

• ‘Semanticizing speech acts’. Speech Acts: Between Philosophy and Linguistics Workshop, Newnham College, Cambridge.

2021

• ‘Default Semantics and Functional Proposition’. Logic Seminar, University of Costa Rica (invited, virtual)

• ‘Functional Propositions: An Inquiry in Philosophical Semantics and Pragmatics’. Pragmasophia 3, 3rd International Conference on Pragmatics and Philosophy, Noto (invited keynote, virtual)

• ‘The apparent flow of human time: From semantics to metaphysics’. First International Congress on Logic, Epistemology and Methodology/Third Epistemology Colloquium, University of Costa Rica (invited keynote, virtual)

• ‘Speaking about time and the lexicon/grammar/pragmatics trade-off’. Verb and Context Conference, University of Alicante (invited talk, virtual)

2019

• ‘Human time and the metaphysics of time’. Science: Polish Perspectives Conference, University of Cambridge 

• ‘Time, metarepresentation, and metaindexicality: A neo-Whorfian approach’. Centre for the Philosophy of Time, University of Milan 

• ‘Rethinking being Gricean: New challenges for  metapragmatics’. Philosophy of Language and Linguistics Conference PhiLang 5, Łódź 

2018

• ‘Being Gricean in 2018: Questions for metapragmatics’. 2nd International Conference on Pragmatics and Philosophy Pragmasophia 2, Lisbon 

•  ‘Pragmatic indexicals’. 2nd Language and Logic Conference, Beijing 

• ‘Time: From semantics to metaphysics’. The Serious Metaphysics Group, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge                

• ‘The concept of time: From semantics to metaphysics’. Beijing Language and Culture University 

• ‘Context and indexicals’. Beijing Language and Culture University 

• ‘Default Semantics: Selected applications’. Beijing Language and Culture University

• ‘Default Semantics: Psychologism and cancellability’. Beijing Language and Culture University

• ‘Introduction to Default Semantics: Pragmatic compositionality’. Beijing Language and Culture University 

• ‘Semantics/pragmatics boundary disputes’. Beijing Language and Culture University 

• ‘Time: From semantics to metaphysics’. Faculty of Philosophy Seminar, University of Łódź 

• ‘Representing beliefs and belief reports in Default Semantics: In search of a proposition’. Workshop ‘Non-propositional attitudes’, Birkbeck College, London 

2017

• ‘Time: Language and metaphysics’. Polish Science Society, Trinity Hall, Cambridge 

• ‘The demise of the concept of time: Linguistic evidence and metaphysical implications’. Centre for Philosophy of Time,  University of Milan

• ‘The demise of the concept of time: Linguistic evidence and metaphysical implications’. Department of Philosophy, University of Genoa 

• ‘Perspective, functional indexicals, and semantic representation’. Meaning, Context and Cognition Conference,  University of Łódź, Poland 

• ‘Strategies of self-reference: A speech-act-theoretic account’ (with M. Witek) Cognition and Communication Research  Group Seminar, University of Szczecin, Poland 

• ‘First-person indexical in mixed quotation: A case for radical contextualism?’.  American Philosophical Association Conference, Vancouver, 2015, and Workshop The Problem of the De Se: Perspectives from Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Oslo, 2017 (with M. Huang)

2016

• ‘What is said: Default Semantics vis-à-vis the Griecean program’. What is Said/What Is Meant Workshop, Humboldt University, Berlin 

• ‘Indexicals: From pragmatics to semantics’. 1st International Conference on Pragmatics and Philosophy Pragmasophia 1, Palermo

• ‘Meaning in Linguistic Interaction: Response to Critics’. Book Symposium on K. M. Jaszczolt, Meaning in Linguistic  Interaction: Semantics, Metasemantics, Philosophy of Language. American Philosophical Association Conference, Pacific Division, San Francisco 

2015

• ‘Default Semantics and pragmatic compositionality’. 14th China Pragmatics Association Conference, Hefei 

• ‘Unmasking philosophers’ fiction: First-person reference, monster operators, and the indexical/nonindexical  distinction’. Cambridge Linguistics Forum 

• ‘The demise of the first-person indexical’.  International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics PhiLang 3, Łódź 

•  ‘First-person indexical in mixed quotation: A case for radical contextualism?’ American Philosophical Association  Conference, Vancouver, 2015, and Workshop The Problem of the De Se: Perspectives from Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Oslo, 2017 (with M. Huang)

• ‘Default Semantics and pragmatic compositionality’. University of Manchester 

2014

•  ‘Interactive semantics and self-awareness’. 10th Meeting of the Polish Cognitive Association, Szczecin

• 'Radical contextualism and indexicalism: Towards a synthesis?'  Seminar Sign-Language-Reality, University of Warsaw 

•  ‘Towards a pragmatic category of conditionals: A radical contextualist account’ (with C.-H. Elder). The Aristotelian Society and Mind Association Joint Session, Cambridge. Also presented at the Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse Cluster, Cambridge, 2013 

2013

• 'Reference resolution: Grammar or pragmatics?' Commentary on Una Stojnic, Matthew Stone & Ernest Lepore, 'Discourse and Logical Form'. Workshop in Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Michigan, Fall 2013 

• 'Interactive Semantics: Rethinking the composition of meaning'. Beijing Normal University and Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China 

• 'Defaults, inferences, and the limits of contextualism'. Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China 

• ‘Conditional thoughts, conditional utterances, and the limits of contextualism’. International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics PhiLang 2, Łódź (with C.-H. Elder)

• ‘Rethinking compositionality’. Language Sciences in the 21st Century: The Interdisciplinary Challenge, Cambridge  Language Sciences Conference

2012

•  ‘Interactive Semantics and pragmatic compositionality’. 1st International Conference of the American Pragmatics    Association (AMPRA 1), Charlotte, North Carolina 

• ‘Temporality and epistemic commitment: An unresolved question’. TIMELing conference, Time and Temporality in Language and Human Experience, Łódź 

• ‘Philosophy of language on language communication’. Cambridge Language Sciences Launch Event, University of Cambridge 

2011

• 'Representing beliefs de se'. Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 4 (SPE 4). Ruhr-Universität Bochum

• ‘Default Semantics and Selected Applications'. DTAL Colloquium, University of Cambridge

• 'Speaker intentions and de se beliefs'. Workshop Focus on the Speaker, 12th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester 

• 'Minimalism and contextualism about de se belief ascription'. International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics PhiLang 1, Łódź 

• 'Context: Gricean intentions vis-a-vis two-dimensional semantics'. Conference   Meaning, Context and Cognition,  Łódź

2010

• 'Radical contextualism'. Workshop Contextualism/Minimalism Debate, University of Cambridge

• 'Time, modal supervenience, and pragmatic compositionality'. Workshop on Time and  Tense, University of St Andrews                

• ‘Efficiency and default interpretations’. Colloque Interdisciplinaire Communication et Contexte, Université Paris-Sorbonne 

• ‘On pragmatic compositionality’. Workshop Interactive Aspects of Language, LAGB Annual Meeting, University of  Leeds, (also workshop co-organizer, with S. Levinson)

• ‘Radical contextualism’. Workshop Contextualism/Minimalism Debate, University of Cambridge

• ‘Time as modality: A radical contextualist account’ 6th Philosophers’ Rally, Łódź. Also presented at the Institute of Logic Seminar, University of Łódź 

• ‘Time, modal supervenience, and pragmatic compositionality’. Time and Tense Workshop, St Andrews

2009

• ‘Speaking about time: Contextual inferences and pragmatic defaults’. 11th International Pragmatics Conference, Melbourne, Australia

• Discussant’s summary talk for the panel ‘Context and contexts: parts meet whole?’. 11th International Pragmatics   Conference, Melbourne, Australia 

• ‘Time and probability: a contextualist semantic account’ Workshop on Default Semantics, University of Neuchâtel   

• ‘Time in language and thought’. International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Łódź 

2008

• ‘Meaning merger: An object of study for contrastive semantics and pragmatics’. 5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Leuven, Belgium 

• ‘Grice and post-Griceans on pragmatic inference’. Summer Institute of the Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association and Mouton de Gruyter, Intercultural Pragmatics, Shanghai 

• ‘Contextualism vs. semantic minimalism’.  Summer Institute of the Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association and Mouton de Gruyter, Intercultural Pragmatics, Shanghai 

• ‘Salient meanings: the characteristics of default interpretations’. Summer Institute of the Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association and Mouton de Gruyter, Intercultural Pragmatics, Shanghai

• ‘Principles of Default Semantics’. Summer Institute of the Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association and Mouton de   Gruyter, Intercultural Pragmatics, Shanghai 

• ‘Contextualism vs. semantic minimalism’. 2nd Workshop on Methods in Theoretical Linguistics, Łódź 

2007

• ‘Post-Gricean pragmatics and Frege’s Legacy’. International Conference Structures Across Cultures, Belgrade 

• ‘Psychologism, Frege, and Post-Gricean pragmatics’ University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 

• ‘Psychological explanations in Gricean pragmatics: An argument from cultural ‘common ground’. 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Goeteborg 

• ‘Composing utterance meaning: An interface between pragmatics and psychology’ (with A. Sysoeva). 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Goeteborg 

2006

• ‘Time as acceptability of events’. Chronos 7: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality, Antwerp              

• ‘Default meanings: Semantic scales for futurity and modality’. Cambridge University Linguistic Society 

2005

• ‘Default meanings for belief reports’. University of Oxford

• ‘Communicating about the past in a tenseless language: Defaults for temporality in Thai’ (with J. Srioutai). Third International Conference in Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, Shanghai

• ‘Default meanings’. University of Nanjing, China 

• ‘Merger representations for attitude constructions’. Workshop Pragmatics, Multidimensional Semantics, and Grammar, LAGB Annual Meeting, University of Cambridge 

• ‘Variadic function and pragmatics-rich representation structures for propositional attitude reports’. ILLC Workshop The Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poreba and Semantics Workshop, Free University of Brussels 

2004

• ‘Between semantics and pragmatics’. Workshop on Methods in Theoretical Linguistics, 2nd International Conference  New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, University of Łódź 

2003

• ‘Default Semantics: theory and some applications’. Workshop on the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Trondheim, Norway 

• ‘The modality of will: an argument for default interpretations’. Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics- Pragmatics Interface, LSA Summer Institute, Michigan State University 

2002

• ‘Default Semantics’. 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Germanic, Romance and Baltic Linguistic Studies, University of Vilnius

• ‘Default Semantics: intentions and conventions in utterance interpretation’ Perspectives into the 21st Century: International Linguistics Conference, Athens 

• ‘Default Semantics’. New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, University of Łódź 

1998

• ‘Tertium comparationis in contrastive semantics and pragmatics’. International Conference on Germanic and Baltic Linguistic Studies and Translation, University of  Vilnius 

1995

• ‘Referring expressions: intentionality and intensionality’. 2nd Amsterdam- Łódź Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Łódź

1994

• ‘Default De Re for belief reports’. Information Technology Research Institute, Brighton 

• ‘Relevance and infinity’. First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, State University of New York, Buffalo.  Also University of Oxford  and University of Surrey 

1993

• ‘Typology of contrastive studies’. University of Brighton 

• ‘Beliefs de re  and de dicto: evidence from English and Polish’. University of Sussex

INVITED LECTURE SERIES 

2024     Jagiellonian University,  Kraków

2018       Beijing University of Language and Culture

2012       University of Pisa 

2011       University of Warsaw

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2023

‘Assertion, normativity, and commitment at the minimalism/contextualism boundary: The case of commenting’. 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Brussels

2022

 ‘Cognitive, social and linguistic parameters for dynamic pragmatic meanings’. American Pragmatics Association Conference (AMPRA 5), Columbia, SC (with Chi-Hé Elder)

2021

• 'Time, metarepresentation, and metaindexicality'. American Philosophical Association Central Division Conference, Philosophy of Time Society Group Meeting 

• 'Does human time really flow? Metaindexicality, metarepresentation, and basic concepts'. Understanding Human Time Workshop, Newnham College, Cambridge, April 2021 

2018

• ‘Rethinking being Gricean: New challenges for metapragmatics’. American Pragmatics Association Conference (AMPRA  4), Albany, NY

• ‘Pragmatic and grammar as sources of temporal ordering in discourse’. American Pragmatics Association Conference  (AMPRA 4), Albany, NY (with R. Sileo)

•  ‘Tenseless languages and “tenseless” reality: From semantics to metaphysics’. 13th International Conference on Tense,  Aspect, Mood, and Modality Chronos 13, Neuchâtel

2016

• ‘Self-reference: A case for pragmatic indexicals?’ 3rd International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA 3), Bloomington, Indiana

2015

• ‘The demise of the first-person indexical’. Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 8, Cambridge

• ‘Adaptable indexicals and pragmatic compositionality’. 14th International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp

• ‘First-person pronouns in quotation: A case for radical contextualism’. 14th  International Pragmatics Conference,  Antwerp (with M. Huang)

2014

• ‘A pragmatic approach to subsentential speech: The case of disjunctive questions’ (with E. Savva & M. Haugh).  LAGB  Annual Meeting, University of Oxford

2013

• ‘Temporal reference in discourse: A modality-based asymmetric account?’ 19th International Congress of Linguists, Geneva

• ‘Conditional utterances and conditional thoughts: A radical contextualist account’ (with C.-H. Elder). 19th International Congress of Linguists, Geneva

2010

• 'Cross-linguistic differences in expressing time and universal principles of utterance interpretation'. Space and Time Across Languages, Disciplines and Cultures STALDAC 2010, Cambridge 

2009

• ‘Cancellability criterion for the primary/secondary and explicit/implicit meaning distinctions’. Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting, Edinburgh

• ‘Salient meanings, default meanings, and automatic enrichment’. 11th International Pragmatics Conference, Melbourne, Australia

2008

• ‘The modal supervenience of the concept of time’. 31st International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria

2006

• ‘Towards a typology of defaults in utterance interpretation’. LAGB Annual Meeting, University of Newcastle

2005

• ‘The feature TENSE and the Simple Present in truth-conditional pragmatics’. 9th International Pragmatics Conference,  Riva del Garda 

2004

• ‘Future-time reference: Truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication?’ Chronos 6: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality, Geneva

2003

• ‘The modality of the future: A Default-Semantics account’. Workshop on the Logic and Semantics of Modality, 14th Amsterdam Colloquium in Language, Logic and Information, University of Amsterdam

• ‘The modality of will: a Default-Semantics account’. LAGB Autumn Meeting, University of Oxford

2001

• ‘Presupposition, anaphora, and focus: a case for semantic defaults’.  LAGB Autumn Meeting, University of Reading

2000

•  ‘On translating what is said: tertium comparationis in contrastive semantics and pragmatics’. 2nd International Conference in Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, University of Cambridge

• ‘Against ambiguity and underspecification: the interface between semantics and pragmatics’. 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Budapest

1999

• ‘Default De Re and the referential intention in belief ascription’. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference,  Stockholm

1998

• ‘The semantics/pragmatics interface: evidence from definite descriptions’. 6th  International Pragmatics Conference, Reims

1997

• ‘Propositional attitude sentences in Discourse Representation Theory’. LAGB Spring Meeting, University of Edinburgh and 5th International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, San Sebastian, Spain

1995

• ‘The Default De Re Principle’. Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, San Sebastian, Spain

1994

• ‘Vehicles of thought and the horizon: Application of Husserl's ideas to the problem of referential ambiguity in oratio  obliqua'. Henry Sweet Society Colloquium, University of Sussex

1992

• ‘Belief ascription’. First Postgraduate Linguistics Conference, University of Manchester

• ‘Beliefs de re  and de dicto: evidence from English and Polish’. LAGB Spring Meeting, University of Brighton

Updated 29 June 2024