Organizer(s) | Anton Benz, Hans Martin Gärtner, Bart Geurts & Manfred Krifka |
Affiliaton(s) | ZAS Berlin, U Nijmegen, NYTUD Budapest |
Start of event | 11.06.2015, 09.00 o'clock |
End of event | 13.06.2015, 18.00 o'clock |
Venue | ZAS, Room 403 |
The workshop is intended for presentation of ongoing work on speech act theory. The programme will be online about 4-6 weeks in advance of the workshop. We expect talks on the following topics:
Organisers:
Speakers:
Thursday, June 11th, 2015
10:00 - 10:30
Introductory remarks
10:30 - 11:15
Magdalene Kaufmann (U Connecticut): Talk about embedding
11:15 - 12:00
Sven Lauer (U Konstanz): Speech-act operators vs. extra-compositional conventions of use: What are the issues?
12:00 - 13:30
LUNCH
13:30 - 14:15
Marcus Kracht & Christoph Brandt (U Bielefeld): A Simple Model for Speech Acts
14:15 - 15:00
Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin): Indirect directive speech acts
15:00 - 15:30
BREAK
15:30 - 16:15
Staffan Larsson & Jenny Myrendal (Gothenburg University): Dialogue acts for word meaning negotiation
18:30
Conference Dinner
Restauran Tapas y más, Neue Grünstraße 17, 10179 Berlin
Friday, June 12th, 2015
10:15 - 11:00
Marina Sbisa (U Triest): Force assignment
11:00 - 11:45
Bart Geurts (U Nijmegen): Precedents
11:45 - 12:00
BREAK
12:00 - 12:45
Bob van Tiel (ZAS, Berlin): Automatic inferences about speakers' beliefs
12:45 - 14:15
LUNCH
14:15 - 15:00
Chris Cummins (U Edinburgh): When are speech acts recognised?
15:00 - 15:30
BREAK
15:30 - 16:15
Mikhail Kissine (U Brussels): Are non-modal assertions about the future possible
16:15 - 17:00
Hubert Truckenbrodt & Frank Sode (ZAS & U Göttingen): German root phenomena and the syntax of perspective
Saturday, June 13th, 2015
10:00 - 10:45
Manfred Krifka (ZAS & HU Berlin): Bias in Commitment Space Semantics: Declarative Questions, Negated Questions, and Question Tags
10:45 - 11:30
Hans-Martin Gärtner (NYTUD Budapest), Daniel Gutzmann (U Köln) & Beáta Gyuris (NYTUD Budapest): Reflective Questions and Indirect Speech Act Failure: Crosslinguistic Variation and Formal Modeling
11:30 - 12:00
BREAK
12:00 - 12:45
Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin): Question-Acts in the Particle Accelerator
12:45 - 13:30
Markus Egg (HU Berlin): Discourse particles in rhetorical questions
13:30 - 13:45
Concluding remarks (organizers)
13:45 END