RT list: Call for papers: Theoretical Pragmatics 2011

Dear all,

A call for papers for a conference on pragmatics.

Best,
Nick

Nicholas Allott
Postdoctoral research fellow
CSMN
University of Oslo

n.e.allott@csmn.uio.no
nicholas.allott@gmail.com

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> Full Title: Theoretical Pragmatics 2011
> Short Title: TPrag 2011
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> Date: 13-Oct-2011 - 15-Oct-2011
> Location: Berlin, Germany
> Contact Person: Katja Jasinskaja
> Meeting Email: jasinskaja@zas.gwz-berlin.de
> Web Site: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_tprag.html
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> Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics
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> Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2011
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> Meeting Description:
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> The last decade witnessed a surge of new research in pragmatics and several new theoretical frameworks emerged: different variants of game theoretic and optimality theoretic approaches, non-Gricean approaches to implicatures, and multi-dimensional approaches to meaning. At the same time, research in other frameworks such as Neo-Gricean pragmatics, speech act-theory, theories of vagueness and presupposition theory has progressed rapidly as well. In many areas, an influx of researchers with training in formal semantics has brought formal precision to pragmatic theories. This has led to new empirical predictions, but also sometimes shifted or blurred the semantics-pragmatics boundary. After a decade of diversification, it is time to bring the different approaches together and compare their results and methodologies.
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> It is the aim of this conference to provide a forum for research on theoretical pragmatics. Pragmatics is understood in a wide sense, including not only classical topics like Gricean pragmatics, speech act and presupposition theory, but also e.g. theoretical models of socio-linguistics, language evolution, and language change. In order to foster the interaction between experimental and theoretical approaches, we explicitly encourage presentations of theoretical models which have a basis in experimental studies, or allow for experimentally testable predictions.
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> Invited Speakers:
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> Richard Breheny, University College London
> Michael Franke, University of Tübingen
> Lotte Hogeweg, Radboud University Nijmegen
> Prashant Parikh, Univeristy of Pennsylvania
> Mandy Simons, Carnegie Mellon University
> Brian Skyrms, University of California - Irvine
> Benjamin Spector, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
> Jason Stanley, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
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> Organization:
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> Anton Benz (ZAS, Berlin)
> Katja Jasinskaja (ZAS, Berlin)
> Uli Sauerland (ZAS, Berlin)
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> The conference is organized and sponsored by the ZAS programme area 6 'Interfaces between sentence semantics and discourse strategies', the DfG project 'Implicatures and Discourse Structure' (IDis), and the Emmy-Noether research group 'Interpretation of Quantifiers'.
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> Call for Papers:
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> Abstracts should be strictly anonymous and should not exceed 2 single-column pages including literature. Abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format via Easychair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tprag2011.
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> The number of submissions is limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract or 2 joint abstracts per author. Abstracts will be evaluated through peer reviewing. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is June 15, 2011. Authors will be notified by August 1, 2011.
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> We plan to publish a selection of papers as a special issue of a journal.
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> Important Dates:
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> Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2011
> Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2011
> Conference: October 13-15, 2011
Received on Wed Apr 13 23:20:28 2011