This conference brings together a number of researchers who are currently working on topics such as: the role of mindreading in understanding (both linguistic and nonlinguistic), varieties and impairments of intersubjective engagement, and the nature of emotions and their role in interpersonal communication as well as in the genesis of moral discourse (both in ontogeny and in phylogeny). These topics lie at the intersection of several fields: philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. Their discussion could benefit from productive interdisciplinary exchange – to which we hope to contribute with this conference.