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Cognitive and Social Processes in Language Use...

• Andreas Langlotz (University of Basel): Linguistic humour at work - a socio-cognitive model of creative social positioning.

• Ted Sanders and Wilbert Spooren (Universiteit Utrecht): Causal categories in discourse: Converging evidence from spoken and written language use.

• Sarah Haywood, Holly Branigan and Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh): Audience design for message form: Do speakers choose word orders that help their listeners.

• Elizabeth Zima and Geert Brône (University of Leuven): Don't go twisting my words? The activation of dialogic resonance for adversarial purposes in parliamentary debates.

• Eve Clark (Stanford University): Repeats and ratification in the process of acquisition.

• Gregory Mills and Patrick Healey(Queen Mary, University of London): Clarifying by alignment: the role of figure and ground.

• Laura Staum Casasanto (Stanford University): Social knowledge in language use.

• Herbert Clark (Stanford University) and Paul Hopper (Carnegie Mellon University): Theme session discussion.