| Organisator(en) | Katja Jasinskaja |
| Veranstaltungsbeginn | 13.10.2011, 09.00 Uhr |
| Veranstaltungsende | 15.10.2011, 18.00 Uhr |
| Ort | ZAS |
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.
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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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.
Thu, October 13:
8:45 Registration
9:15 Welcome
9:30-10:25
Richard Breheny (University College London)
On the development of testable theories of semantics-pragmatics
coffee
10:40-11:35
Prashant Parikh (University of Pennsylvania)
Computing Modulations
coffee
11:50-12:45
Jason Stanley (Rutgers University - New Brunswick)
Domain Restriction and the Context-Sensitivity of Questions
lunch
14:15-14:55
Ralf Klabunde, Sebastian Reuße and Björn Schlünder (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Coherence as joint activity
14:55-15:35
Jacopo Romoli (Harvard University)
A Solution to Soames’ Problem: Presuppositions, Conditionals and Exhaustification
coffee
15:50-16:30
Andreas Haida and Sophie Repp (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Necessity = Possibility = Necessity. Authoritative Acts on the Common Ground
16:30-17:10
Dietmar Zaefferer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and Patric Bach(University of Plymouth)
Testing theories of sentence type
Fri, October 14:
9:30-10:25
Michael Franke (University of Tübingen)
Game Theory in Formal Pragmatics
coffee
10:40-11:35
Benjamin Spector (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Are there obligatory scalar implicatures? An argument from global
positive polarity items
coffee
11:50-12:45
Mandy Simons (Carnegie Mellon University)
Structured contents and local pragmatics
lunch
14:15-14:55
Bob van Tiel (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Relevant alternatives: a Gricean perspective
14:55-15:35
Daphna Heller (University of Toronto) and Lynsey Wolter (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire)
Beyond demonstratives: direct reference in perceptually-grounded descriptions
coffee
15:50-16:30
Beata Gyuris (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
An ‘all-purpose’ particle or marker of expectations?
16:30-18:30 Poster Session
19:00 Conference Dinner
Sat, October 15:
9:30-10:25
Lotte Hogeweg (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Synchronic and diachronic semantic weakening
coffee
10:40-11:20
Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas (University of Murcia)
Relevance Theory and Conceptual Integration Theory: Deflationary Accounts of Metaphor
11:20-12:00
Nicholas Allott (CSMN, University of Oslo) and Mark Textor (King's College London)
A Cluster Theory of Ad Hoc Concepts: An Alternative to the ‘Externalist Semantic Perspective’ in Lexical Pragmatics
lunch
13:30-14:10
Richard Moore (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Do great ape gestures have a Gricean intentional structure?
coffee
14:30-15:10
Gerhard Schaden (Université Lille 3)
Modelling the "Aoristic Drift of the Present Perfect" as Inflation
15:10-15:50
Roland Mühlenbernd and Michael Franke (University of Tübingen)
Signaling Conventions: Who learns what where and when in a social network?
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