11.1448, Calls: Formal Pragmatics, Discourse Particles

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Subject: 11.1448, Calls: Formal Pragmatics, Discourse Particles

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Date:  Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:32:28 +0200
From:  "Toni Benz" <toni.benz at german.hu-berlin.de>
Subject:  Formal Pragmatics

2)
Date:  Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:16:42 +0200 (METDST)
From:  "Wouden A. van der" <A.van.der.Wouden at let.rug.nl>
Subject:  Discourse Particles

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:32:28 +0200
From:  "Toni Benz" <toni.benz at german.hu-berlin.de>
Subject:  Formal Pragmatics

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Workshop on FORMAL PRAGMATICS - CALL FOR PAPERS

Date: 16. to 18. March 2001,
Location: Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Organised by
    Anton Benz (Berlin)
    Reinhard Blutner (Berlin), and
    Bart Geurts (Berlin/Nijmegen)
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Although formal pragmatics has a long tradition, it has generally
been in the shadow of formal semantics. But recently there has
been a rapid progress in the field, as witness the development of
new approaches such as:

    - Optimality theory (OT)
    - Game and decision Theory
    - Theory of distributed Systems
    - Logic-based approaches
    - Extensions of dynamic semantics
    - Extensions of classical pragmatic approaches

This workshop  offers an opportunity for the discussion of new
approaches to formal pragmatics.  We invite submissions related
but not limited to the following topics:

    - Optimality and interpretation
    - Information and relevance
    - Game theory and communication
    - Conversational implicature
    - Presupposition
    - Focus
    - Information update in dialogue
    - Dialogue acts and their representation


Invited Speakers:
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    Nicholas Asher (Austin)
    Helen de Hoop (Utrecht)
    Laurence R. Horn (Yale)
    Arthur Merin (Munich)


Program Committee
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    Nicholas Asher (Austin)
    Anton Benz (Berlin)
    Reinhard Blutner (Berlin)
    Bart Geurts (Berlin/Nijmegen)
    Helen de Hoop (Utrecht)
    Laurence R. Horn (Yale)
    Manfred Krifka (Berlin)
    Arthur Merin (Munich)


Submission format
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We invite submissions of  abstracts of maximum 4 page length
(a4, 10pt, including bibliography), accompanied by a separate
sheet indicating name, address and affiliation of the author(s)
together with the title of the abstract, to be addressed to:

    Anton Benz
    Projekt Dialogsemantik
    Humboldt Universität Berlin
    Prenzlauer Promenade 149-152
    Room 521/522
    13189 Berlin
    Germany

Electronical submissions are highly encouraged (MS Word, ps,
pdf, or dvi), and may be sent to one of the following addresses:

    toni.benz at german.hu-berlin.de
    bart.geurts at phil.kun.nl


Important dates
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    - November 1st, 2000:   Deadline for submission
    - January 15th, 2001:  Notification of acceptance
    - March 16th to 18th:  Conference


Conference Homepage
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 http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/asg/blutner/dialog/work2.html




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Date:  Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:16:42 +0200 (METDST)
From:  "Wouden A. van der" <A.van.der.Wouden at let.rug.nl>
Subject:  Discourse Particles

Second Announcement

DISCOURSE PARTICLES, MODAL AND FOCAL PARTICLES AND ALL THAT STUFF...

Abstracts due: September 1st, 2000

The Department of Germanic Languages of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
and the Linguistic Society of Belgium invite papers for a two day
international conference on PARTICLES. The conference will take place
at the Belgian Science Foundation, 5 Rue Egmontstraat 5, B 1050
Brussels, December 8-9, 2000, and receives financial support from NWO
and FWO, the Dutch and Belgian Organizations for Scientific Research.

CONFERENCE TOPIC The conference focusses on particles in a broad
sense, i.e. all lexical elements that do not contribute to the
propositional content of the sentence and/or utterance, including what
has been referred to in the literature as apposition markers, attitude
markers, connecteurs phatiques, connecteurs pragmatiques, discourse
markers, discourse particles, focus adverbs, focus particles,
gliederungs-signale, inference particles, marqueurs de la
reformulation paraphrastique, marqueurs de structuration de la
conversation, modal particles, non-referential indexes, phatic
connectives, pragmalexeme, pragmatic expressions, pragmatic markers,
punctors, redecharakterisierende adverbiale, utterance particles, void
pragmatic connectives, etc.

A non-exhaustive list of topics to be addressed during the conference
might be: syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of particles;
particles in cross-linguistic and typological perspective; particles
in translation; particles in the light of natural language processing;
particles and text structure; particles as part of the
grammaticalisation processes.

INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed)

AD FOOLEN (Catholic University of Nijmegen)
MAJ-BRITT MOSEGAARD HANSEN (University of Copenhagen)
HARALD WEYDT (Europa University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Inge Callebaut, Free University of Brussels
Piet Van de Craen, Free University of Brussels
Ad Foolen, Catholic University of Nijmegen
Ton van der Wouden, Universities of Groningen and Leiden
Frans Zwarts, University of Groningen

COSTS

Participation costs: Euro 75 (BEF 3025/NLG 160), including
documentation, reception, the Saturday 3 course lunch and
coffee breaks.

ACCOMMODATION

A limited number of rooms are available at the Science
Foundation. Reservations will be made on a first come, first served
basis. Furthermore, a list of reasonably priced hotels will be made
available.

ABSTRACTS

Please send an anonymous 1 page abstract (Times 12) for a 20 minute
presentation, preferably in electronic format (RTF, ASCII, HTML or
Postscript) both to vdwouden at let.rug.nl and pvdcraen at vub.ac.be. Your
abstract should be accompanied by a cover letter stating name,
address, affiliation, email address, phone and fax numbers. If you do
not have email access please send 5 copies of your anonymous abstract
to: Ton van der Wouden, ATW Leiden, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The
Netherlands.

Submissions by fax will not be accepted.

Deadline for abstracts: SEPTEMBER 1st 2000.
Notification of acceptation: October 15th 2000.

Selected contributions will be published in a Special Issue of the
Belgian Journal of Linguistics in 2001.


WEBSITE

http://www.let.rug.nl/~vdwouden/particles

For more information please contact:
Piet Van de Craen
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Arts/Dept. of Germanic Languages
B 1050 BRUSSELS / BELGIUM
Tel. +32-2-629.2665/Fax +32-2-629.3684
email: pvdcraen at vub.ac.be



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Ton van der Wouden

VNC-Project "Partikelgebruik in Nederland en Vlaanderen"
Afdeling Nederlands, Fries en Nedersaksisch, Groningen en ATW Leiden
Postbus 9515
2300 RA Leiden
tel. 071 5171089 (thuis) 071 5277983 (werk) 071 5272615 (fax)
email vdwouden at let.rug.nl
http://www.let.rug.nl/~vdwouden

homepage Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap/Linguistic Society of
the Netherlands: http://www.let.rug.nl/orgs/avt

DISCOURSE PARTICLES, MODAL AND FOCAL PARTICLES AND ALL THAT STUFF.....
A two day international conference on PARTICLES in Brussels,
December 8-9, 2000           http://www.let.rug.nl/~vdwouden/particles
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