Less than a week to submit your abstracts to #XPRAG2022 Invited speakers’ pictures below, just to increase motivation 😀 All infos here sites.google.com/iusspavia.it/x… IUSS PAVIA

Go Esther youtu.be/dDiGjfEu5IQ

Can one really count on the “estimations” of the French Presidential elections. There are approximately 300k votes separating Le Pen and Melanchon. They haven’t counted all the votes.

There seems to be an error here: actual title is « The various ways in which conventional meanings recruit pragmatic information »

Colleague: New paper? Me: Yeah. Colleague: Elevator pitch? Me: Scalar implicature meets Number Cognition. Colleague: Oh? Me: Then they meet Stephen Chrisomalis Colleague: Cool. Is there a sequel? Me: Working on it. PLOS ONE: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… #plosoneauthor

I go by “Stephane”

Roberts should offer his seat to Biden.

Today we sent to the publisher Edizioni del Mulino the 19 chapters that compose a new book I co-edited with F. Domaneschi, “Pragmatica Sperimentale”. This will be the first handbook in #ExperimentalPragmatics *in Italian* and will be out in the Fall. Thanks to all authors! #XPRAGit

Jake Tapper: "One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup." John Bolton: "I disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coup d’etat, not here, but other places, it takes a lot of work."

Appropriate: An an hoc implicature in the wake of an ad hoc apology following an ad hoc coup

I’m a sucker for these sorts of inspirational pep talks.

via @NYTimes why not call it what is NYT? Just plain fascistic. nytimes.com/2022/09/18/us/…

New Italian PM says “we will never be slaves…at the mercy of financial speculators.” Sounds just like 1930s in Italy and Germany. No thanks for the memories.

French TV show invited people with unusual laughs to sit together….. the outcome is fucking brilliant. 😂

This is funny

Perhaps we should find someone here to buy Truth Social? And just switch?

Ok, I think this time I did it correctly for real. I'm joining the herd at Mastadon. @[email protected]

mind blown by a YouTube comment of all things

New Research: Taking stock of an idiom’s background assumptions: an alternative relevance theoretic account #Psychology #Psych frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…