Abstracts and presentations

Marcel Bax (Groningen): Talking of ritual – Meta-discourse, meta-representation, and rationalization of language use
Wolfgang Wildgen (Bremen): Is metarepresentation an effect of self-organization?
Cui Peiling (Bremen): Metarepresentation in linguistic jokes
Todd Oakley (Cleveland) & Per Aage Brandt (Cleveland): Meta-Representation, Mind Reading, and Fictive Interaction
Sven Ostergaard (Aarhus): Meta-representation – The Emergence of meta-representation (a hypothesis)
Barend van Heusden (Groningen): Metarepresentation in artistic semiosis – a systematic and evolutionary approach