Exploiting Ambiguity

Claudia Picazo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)

The next meeting of the Sign-Language-Reality seminar in the academic year 2024/25 will take place:

Thursday, the 10th of April 2025, 17.00, Central European Time

Claudia Picazo Jacque

(UNED)

will deliver a talk:

Exploiting Ambiguity

(joint work with Laura Delgado)

Abstract:

Although we typically aim at disambiguating between the possible meanings or contents of our expressions, we are often quite happy with ambiguities: we tolerate them and even exploit them for various purposes. This paper explores the often-overlooked phenomenon of ambiguity exploitation in communication, and the plural semantic intentions it involves. We argue that the phenomenon calls for a semantic explanation and we motivate a multipropositionalist view of ambiguity exploitation that provides a natural description of the phenomena we present.

The seminar will be held online, to join the meeting, please use the information below:

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The meeting opens at 4:45 pm, the talk starts at 5 pm.