XPrag.de at the “International Workshop on Experimental Pragmatics” at U Waseda, Japan

On November 18th, XPrag.de members Kazuko Yatsushiro and Jack Tomlinson will give talks each at the “International Workshop on Experimental Pragmatics” at Waseda University, Japan. The workshop is jointly organized by the JSPS Germany-Japan Bilateral Joint Research Project, in which several XPrag.de members are involved (PIs: Uli Sauerland, ZAS and Yoichi Miyamoto, Osaka U.) and the Center for English Language Education (CELESE) at Waseda University. Kazuko Yatsushiro will talk on “Plural markedness across languages: Experimental evidences” and Jack Tomlinson will talk on “Lack of commitment: How speakers reduce epistemic stance and how listeners integrate this into utterance interpretation”.