Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

Game Theoretical Approaches to Implicature in Complex Sentences

Organizer(s) Anton Benz
Start of event 28.04.2014, 13.00 o'clock
End of event 29.04.2014, 16.00 o'clock
Workshop program

The main topic of this workshop are game theoretic approaches to Gricean pragmatics, and, in particular, models of implicatures in complex sentences. 

Monday, 28.04.14

13:00 Opening
Anton Benz

13:45 – 14:45
Sascia Pavan (Pordenone, Italy):
What Forward Induction Can (and Cannot) Do in Game-Theoretic Pragmatics

15:00 – 16:00
Gerhard Jäger (U Tübingen):
The different flavors of the Iterated Best Response Model of game-theoretic pragmatics

16:30 – 17:15
Jon Stevens (ZAS):
A game theoretic approach to focus
 


Tuesday, 29.04.14

09:40 Coffee

10:00 – 11:00
Michael Franke (ILLC Amsterdam):
Local enrichments from global reasoning

11:15 – 12:15
Anton Benz (ZAS):
Error Models and Implicature in Complex Sentences

14:00 – 14:45
Uli Sauerland (ZAS):
Intermediate Scalar Implicatures

15:00 – 15:45 
Bob van Tiel (U Bielefeld):
Implicature: rationality vs. regularities