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

Forthcoming in 2023

• ‘Dynamic functional proposition for dynamic discourse meaning’. Dynamic Pragmatics Association Workshop, Osaka University (with C.-H. Elder, virtual).

• ‘The flow of time: From emergentism to linguistic diversity’. The Philological Society.

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 

2018       Beijing University of Language and Culture

2012       University of Pisa 

2011       University of Warsaw

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Forthcoming in 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, virtual)

2021

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

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

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 6 February 2023