Re: RT list: Urgent CFP: IPrA conference Panel on the syntax/pragmatics interface

Dear all,

I'd like to thank everyone who responded to this call for their prompt
messages. The slot has now been filled by Jeannete Gundel. Looking
forward to seeing all relevance-oriented participants in Manchester.

Best wishes,
Stavros

On 25 October 2010 10:07, Stavros Assimakopoulos
<stavros.assimakopoulos@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am sending out this message, since one of the participants in a
> panel I am organising for the forthcoming IPrA conference (Manchester,
> 4-8 July 2011) just withdrew their participation and I am looking for
> a possible replacement. I am afraid that the deadline for the
> submission of abstracts is this Friday, the 29th of October, so I
> would need to coordinate this as soon as possible. The title of the
> panel is "Cognitive pragmatics and its interfaces in linguistics" and
> I am looking for a talk on the interface between syntax and
> pragmatics. Here is the panel's outline to which the potential
> presentation would need to pertain.
>
>       "Contemporary pragmatic theories have been more or less based
> on the original Gricean arguments regarding the study of
> speaker-intended meaning, which is derived from inference over the
> discourse context in which an utterance occurs. Arguably, another
> landmark in the evolution of theorising about linguistic pragmatics
> can be located in Relevance Theory’s insistence that pragmatics needs
> to be pursued from a cognitive perspective, within which a
> psychologically realistic view of the human cognitive system is both
> criterial for good pragmatic theory and an overall aim of pragmatic
> analysis. In this respect, current discussions of pragmatics, while
> still mainly philosophical, are increasingly affected by research in
> cognitive psychology and regularly meet with the requirement that they
> put forth experimentally testable theoretical predictions. Because of
> this, cognitive pragmatic accounts are comparable to
> cognitive/mentalist approaches to other linguistic sub-fields and
> should therefore logically fit together with them. Even so, there is a
> lot of scepticism on whether pragmatics can be usefully implemented in
> our theoretical descriptions of what knowledge of language ultimately
> consists in. This is probably due to the fact that inferences
> regarding speaker-intentions lie outside the domain of language proper
> and therefore little attention is usually paid to pragmatics from
> other sides of linguistics.
>        The proposed panel will assess this situation, examining ways in
> which cognitive pragmatics can be thought to carry implications for
> more ‘core’ research within linguistics. To this end, alongside the
> obvious area of the semantics/pragmatics interface, equal attention
> will be paid to the corresponding syntax/pragmatics and
> phonology/pragmatics interfaces. In this setting,  the panel’s main
> objective will be to promote the idea that syntacticians, semanticists
> and phonologists alike can gain significant benefits from the
> implementation of pragmatics research in their own area and that
> linguistics as a whole should not blindly downplay the role that
> cognitive pragmatics plays in our understanding of language as a
> cognitive capacity."
>
> If anyone is interested in this, please contact me directly with a
> potential topic. Do keep in mind that the panel will include talks
> from eminent scholars, so the proposed talk would certainly need to be
> of a high standard. Thank you in advance for your time and apologies
> for the urgency of this message. I just thought it would be a pity to
> leave a slot empty in such an international event on pragmatics.
>
> Kind regards,
> Stavros
>
> --
> Stavros Assimakopoulos
> Postdoctoral Investigator
> Department of Philosophy I
> University of Granada
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> http://www.ugr.es/~stavros/
>
>

-- 
Stavros Assimakopoulos
Postdoctoral Investigator
Department of Philosophy I
University of Granada
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http://www.ugr.es/~stavros/