Program

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
 
13:45-14:45
Philippe De Brabanter
Marks of quotation must be optional
 
14:45-15:15
Jan Wiślicki​
Scare quotes as deontic modals: Evidence from limits on scare quoting
 
15:15-15:45
Katsumasa Ito
The interaction of ironical scare quotations and discourse particles in Japanese
 
Coffee Break
 
16:30-17:00
Rita Finkbeiner
Proper name constructions, quotation marks and the use-mention distinction

17:00-18:00
Emar Maier
Picturing words: The semantics of speech balloons

Thursday, March 5, 2020
 
9:00-10:00
Markus Steinbach (invited talk)
Expressing the use-mention distinction at the gesture-sign interface
 
10:00-10:30
James Griffiths, Güliz Güneş & Anikó Lipták
Focus and quotation in English echo questions
 
Alternate talk
Andreas Musolff
“If you know what I mean”: The use of mentions in wartime reporting – W. L. Shirer’s dispatches from wartime Germany 1939-40