The workshop “Negotiated Meanings, Norms, Cooperation, and Conflict in Linguistic Interaction” brings together researchers working at the intersection of philosophy of language, pragmatics, and linguistics to reconsider how meaning is produced, stabilized, contested, and transformed in communicative practice.
The workshop aims to develop theoretical frameworks that extend and enrich the Gricean picture of communication by integrating insights about social norms, commitment structures, hearer-cantered interpretation, conflict, and cultural evolution. More broadly, it seeks to explore how communicative transactions and discourse meanings are shaped not only by intentions and their recognition, but also by conventions, institutional roles, negotiated interpretations, and evolving communicative practices.
14 – 15 April 2026, Room 194, Campus “Krakowska”, University of Szczecin, Krakowska 71-79, 71-017 Szczecin
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Keynote Lectures
- Mitchell S. Green (University of Connecticut, USA), Conversational Norms and Cultural Evolution
- Kasia M. Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge, UK), Generalized Unsaying
- Manfred Krifka (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Committing, blocking and de-committing propositions as basic steps in conversation
- Marco Mazzone (University of Catania, Catania, Italy), Save Private Grice: Conflicts According to Norms – or Over Norms?
- Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Hearer’s Meaning 2.0: Meaning without speaker intention
Other Speakers
- Grzegorz Gaszczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland), and J. P. Grodniewicz (Jagiellonian University, Poland), How to assess whether AI is capable of providing explanations?
- Artur Kosecki (University of Szczecin, Poland), Explication, Epistemic Aims, and the Social Sciences
- Oktawia Maculewicz (University of Szczecin, Poland), Novel metaphor processing, stereotypes and mental imagery
- Jan G. Michel (University of Bonn, Germany), Articulation and Acceptance in Scientific Discovery
- Steve Oswald (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), “I didn’t mean this I meant that!” An argumentative approach to metalinguistic denials
- Allard Tamminga (University of Greifswald, Germany), A Logic of Collective Obligations
- Maciej Tarnowski (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Acceptance, knowledge and conversational tone
- Maciej Witek (University of Szczecin, Poland), Assertoric Speech Acts and Conceptual Dynamics: An Austinian Metasemantic Perspective
Organizers
- Maciej Witek, Institute of Philsophy and Cognitive Science, University of Szczecin, website, contact Maciej
- Artur Kosecki, Institute of Philsophy and Cognitive Science, University of Szczecin, website, contact Artur
Funding
The organization of this workshop is supported by the National Science Centre, Poland under grant 2024/53/B/HS1/00590, “Lexicalized Concepts from the Perspectives of Meaning Eliminativism and Dynamic Conventionalism. An Austinian Approach to Conceptual Change and Amelioration”, and by the Institute of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Szczecin.
