Conversational pragmatics

This research programme focuses on the pragmatic processes involved in communicating uncertainties, quantities and in logical reasoning.

Verbal probabilities are a common mean for communicating risk and uncertainties in many decision-making settings (e.g., finance, …

When faced with two competing hypotheses, people sometimes prefer to look at multiple sources of information in support of one …

This research focuses on what determines speakers’ choice of positive and negative probability phrases (e.g., “a chance” vs. “not …

Accounts of the scalar inference from ‘some X-ed’ to ‘not all X-ed’ are central to the debate between contemporary theories of …

Offender profilers use verbal and numerical probability expressions to convey uncertainty surrounding claims made about …

The utterance of a negative statement invites the pragmatic inference that some reason exists for the proposition it negates to be …

When a statement about the occurrence of a medical condition is qualified by an expression of probability, such as the word possible, …

We argue that logical expressions in human language enable speakers to perform particular acts as well as stating propositions which …