RT list: Fwd: CFP - The Experimental Turn in Philosophical Pragmatics - Humana.Mente issue 23

Dear all,

I have been asked to forward this call for papers by the editors of the
special issue..

Best,
Stavros

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Date: 22 November 2011 08:10
Subject: CFP - The Experimental Turn in Philosophical Pragmatics -
Humana.Mente issue 23
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Special Issue

*The Experimental Turn in Philosophical Pragmatics*

Editors:

Francesca Ervas (University of Cagliari)

Elisabetta Gola (University of Cagliari)

*Call for Papers *

Modern pragmatics has been defined as “philosophical”, not only because its
main representative authors, such as Grice and Austin, were philosophers of
ordinary language, but also because it has used linguistic and
philosophical analysis as a method to give an explanation of communicative
features of language. However, in the last years, plenty of studies have
brought classical pragmatic theories in front of the tribunal of
experience, to test their power of explanation and prediction. The result
has been the growth of a flourishing interdiscipline, called “Experimental
Pragmatics”, which claims that understanding an utterance requires the
access to the speaker’s intention in specific contexts and uses
experimental techniques coming from psycholinguistics, cognitive sciences
and psychology to bring to light the comprehension mechanisms of
non-literal and figurative language. The objective of this issue is to
discuss the main empirical results of Experimental Pragmatics and to
explore its theoretical influence on “philosophical” pragmatics in its most
important research subjects, such as figures of speech, implicatures, etc.
How and to what extent do experimental method and conceptual analysis
interact in pragmatics? Which consequences does this experimental turn have
for theorizing in pragmatics?

This issue of *Humana.Mente* welcomes contributions addressing these and
related themes, including:

**

Presuppositions vs. Implications

Lexical Disambiguation and Reference Resolution

The Pragmatics of Discourse

Evidence of the Explicit/Implicit Distinction

Processing of Implicatures

Metaphor Understanding

How Metonymy works

Production and Perception of Jokes and Humor

Irony Comprehension

**

Papers should be submitted in blind review format. Please omit any
self-identifying information within the abstract and body of the paper.

Furthermore, we invite to submit reviews of recent books (published after
2009), and commentaries of articles and books (also published before 2009)
that could be particularly interesting for the topics analysed in this
Issue.

**

Paper and review submissions should adhere to the following guidelines:

(1) Submissions should be sent via email to francesca.ervas@gmail.comand
egola@unica.it **

(2) Instructions for authors:

Languages: English

Deadline for submissions: *May 2nd, 2012*.

Notification of acceptance: *August 1st, 2012*

Final version due: *October 1, 2012*

(3) Papers should not exceed 42.000 characters in either Microsoft
Word or Rich Text format and should include an abstract of no more than 150
words.

-- 
Stavros Assimakopoulos
Institute of Linguistics
University of Malta
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http://www.ugr.es/~stavros/