The SPAGAD project will investigate speech acts, the basic linguistic units with communicative function. It is made possible by recent breakthroughs in our understanding of speech acts as devices to change the world by establishing new commitments and constrain the future development of a conversation.
The project will propose a formal model for speech acts. In the light of this model it will investigate the role of speech acts in three areas. (1) It will elucidate their role in grammar in typologically diverse languages: how they are expressed by morphological, syntactic and prosodic means, how expressions like adverbials and clause-embedding verbs can operate on them, and how they can be integrated in a formal model of the syntax/semantics interface. (2) It will investigate speech acts in discourse: how they are used to enrich the common ground, how they can be employed to negotiate conflicts in the development of conversation, how questions, contrastive topics and discourse particles are devices that restrict the development a discourse can take, and how the choice of one speech act out of set of alternatives creates pragmatic effects like bias in questions or politeness in commands. (3) And it will explore speech acts in communication: What are the societal norms of different speech acts, like the prohibition against asserting falsehoods, which strategies can increase or decrease the commitments of speakers, how does the context influence the type of commitments, how do social groups within one language community differ, what are the differences across language communities, how are the societal norms that come with speech acts acquired?
The SPAGAD project will have a major impact on linguistic semantics and pragmatics; it will reconceive them with a model theory based on commitments, rather than truth conditions. Due to the pivotal role of speech acts, it will also offer new perspectives for syntax, discourse studies, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and the philosophy of language.
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Krifka, Manfred 08. - 14.09.2024
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Nicolae, Andreea 27. - 29.06.2024
Krifka, Manfred 19. – 21.06.2024
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Krifka, Manfred 29. - 31.05.2024
Krifka, Manfred & Fereshteh Modarresi 28. - 30.05.2024
Żygis, Marzena, Sarah Wesolek, Nina Hossini & Manfred Krifka 16.05.2024
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Krifka, Manfred 11. - 13.04.2024
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Trinh, Tue 14.12.2023
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Krifka, Manfred 16. - 17.11.2023
Trinh, Tue 12.10.2023
Krifka, Manfred 09. - 11.10.2023
Krifka, Manfred 05. - 06.10.2023
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Trinh, Tue 21. - 23.09.2023
Trinh, Tue 06. - 08.09.2023
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Krifka, Manfred & Fereshteh Modarresi 29.08. - 01.09.2023
Trinh, Tue 29.08.2023
Trinh, Tue 07. - 12.08.2023
Zygis, Marzena, Nasim Mahdinazhad Sardhaei & Manfred Krifka 07. - 11.08.2023
Trinh, Tue 13. - 15.07.2023
Trinh, Tue 22.06.2023
Trinh, Tue 08. - 10.06.2023
Krifka, Manfred 08.06.2023 - 10.06.2023
Trinh, Tue 30.05.2023
Daniel Harris 26.05.2023, 16:00-17:30 Uhr
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Goodhue, Daniel 17. - 18.05.2023
Trinh, Tue 16. - 18.05.2023
Trinh, Tue 12. - 14.05.2023
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz & Gabriela Brozbǎ 12.05.2023 - 14.05.2023
Goodhue, Daniel 12. - 14.05.2023
Trinh, Tue & Viet Cao 12. - 14.05.2023
Krifka, Manfred & Fereshteh Modarresi 05.05.2023 - 07.05.2023
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Goodhue, Daniel 03.05.2023
Hans-Martin Gärtner & Andreas Pankau 28.04.2023, 16:00 Uhr
Goodhue, Daniel & Brian Buccola 28. - 30.04.2023
Trinh, Tue 27. - 29.04.2023
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Mikhail Kissine 31.03.2023, 16:00
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Rebecca Woods 24.02.2023, 16:00
Goodhue, Daniel 13.02.2023
Mandy Simons and Craige Roberts 27.01.2023, 16:00
Krifka, Manfred 19.01.2023
Mitchell Green 16.12.2022, 16:00-18:00
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Emanuel Viebahn 25.11.2022
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Krifka, Manfred 14.09.2022 - 16.09.2022
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Magdalena Kaufmann 01.07.2022
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Martina Wiltschko 01.04.2022
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Paul Portner 18.02.2022
Andreas Trotzke 28.01.2022
Daniel Goodhue 17.12.2021
Krifka, Manfred 09.12.2021 - 12.12.2021
Buch, Friederike 25.11.2021 - 26.11.2021
Pilar Prieto 19.11.2021
Krifka, Manfred 10.11.2021 - 12.11.2021
Krifka, Manfred 05.11.2021 - 07.11.2021
Yatsushiro, Kazuko, Chiara Dal Farra, Aurore Gonzalez, […], Teresa Maria Guasti & Uli Sauerland 04.11.2021 - 07.11.2021
Markus Kneer 29.10.2021
William Starr 24.09.2021
Buch, Friederike 20.09.2021 - 22.09.2021
Hamlaoui, Fatima, Marzena Żygis, Sergio Quiroz & Jonas Engelmann 16.09.2021 - 19.09.2021
Yatsushiro, Kazuko, Tue Trinh, Marzena Żygis, Stephanie Solt, Anton Benz & Manfred Krifka 08.09.2021 - 10.09.2021
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Yatsushiro, Kazuko 22.05.2020 - 23.05.2020
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