18.2601, Calls: General Ling/USA; Philosophy of Lang,Pragmatics/Germany

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Subject: 18.2601, Calls: General Ling/USA; Philosophy of Lang,Pragmatics/Germany

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1)
Date: 06-Sep-2007
From: Daniel Seely < tseely at emich.edu >
Subject: Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society 

2)
Date: 05-Sep-2007
From: Anton Benz < benz at zas.gwz-berlin.de >
Subject: Games and Decisions in Pragmatics III

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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:24:22
From: Daniel Seely [tseely at emich.edu]
Subject: Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society
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Full Title: Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society 
Short Title: MLS37 

Date: 10-Nov-2007 - 10-Nov-2007
Location: Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA 
Contact Person: Beverley Goodman
Meeting Email: linguist_mls37 at emich.edu
Web Site: http://www.emich.edu/linguistics/mls07 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 24-Sep-2007 

Meeting Description:

37th Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan
http://www.emich.edu/linguistics/mls07/

Keynote Speaker: Donca Steriade, MIT 

The deadline for the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistics Society has been
extended to Monday September 24th by 5 pm EST.  

We invite presentations of original research in all areas of linguistics for the
37th Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society. Presentations will be
twenty minutes in length plus ten minutes for discussion. 

Abstracts should be submitted by September 24, 2007, and will be reviewed
anonymously, with decisions rendered as soon as possible.  

All abstracts must be submitted electronically by following the instructions at
www.emich.edu/linguistics/mls07.

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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:24:30
From: Anton Benz [benz at zas.gwz-berlin.de]
Subject: Games and Decisions in Pragmatics III
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Full Title: Games and Decisions in Pragmatics III 
Short Title: GDP III 

Date: 23-Nov-2007 - 24-Nov-2007
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Anton Benz
Meeting Email: benz at zas.gwz-berlin.de
Web Site: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/gdpIII/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 21-Sep-2006 

Meeting Description:

Conference on game theoretic pragmatics: the role of preferences and decision
making in language use. 

Second and Final Call for Papers

Games and Decisions in Pragmatics III
November 23rd-24th, 2007 
Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research (ZAS),
Berlin, Germany

URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/conferences/CfP-GDP-III.pdf

Recent years witnessed an increased interest in formal pragmatics and especially
the establishment of game theory as a new research methodology for the study of
language use. Game and Decision Theory (GDT) are natural candidates if we look
for a theoretical foundation of linguistic pragmatics. Over the last decade, a
firm research community has emerged with a strong interdisciplinary character,
where economists, philosophers, and social scientists meet with linguists.
Within this field of research, three major currents can be distinguished: one is
closely related to the Gricean paradigm and aims at a precise foundation of
pragmatic reasoning, the second originates in the economic literature and is
concerned with the role of game theory in the context of language use, and the
third aims at language evolution seen either from a biological or from a
cultural perspective. 

It is the aim of this conference to provide a forum for research on game
theoretic pragmatics. Pragmatics is understood in a wide sense, including not
only classical topics like Gricean pragmatics, speech act theory, rhetoric, and
socio-linguistics, but also e.g. investigations into the role of rational
behaviour in language change. We invite talks that further our theoretical
understanding of the role of preferences and decision making in language use, as
well as empirical investigations into the validity of theoretical models. 

Invited Speakers:
Patrick Grim, St. Andrews
Arthur Merin, Konstanz
Brian Skyrms, Irvine
tba

Submissions:
Authors should submit an anonymous abstract. The length of abstracts for talks
should be at most 3 single-column pages including literature. All submissions
should include a separate cover page specifying the authors' names, affiliation,
address, e-mail address and title of the paper. The abstracts should be
submitted electronically (pdf, ps or doc format) to: gdpIII at zas.gwz-berlin.de

A selection of the papers of this workshop will be the kernel of a book
''Language, Games, and Evolution'' edited by Benz, Ebert, Jäger, and van Rooij
to appear in the series ''Texts on Logic and Games'' published by the Amsterdam
University Press.

Important Dates:
Deadline for Submissions: September, 21st 2007
Notification of Acceptance: October, 15th, 2007
Conference: November 23rd-24th, 2007

Reviewing Board:
Anton Benz, Berlin 
Christian Ebert, Bielefeld
Gerhard Jaeger, Bielefeld
Robert van Rooij, Amsterdam 
tba

Organisation:
Anton Benz, Berlin
Christian Ebert, Bielefeld
Gerhard Jaeger, Bielefeld
Robert van Rooij, Amsterdam 

URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/conferences/CfP-GDP-III.pdf
Contact: gdpIII at zas.gwz-berlin.de (valid some weeks before deadline)

Previous Conferences: 
http://anton-benz.de/gdp/gdp.html
http://anton-benz.de/gdp/GDPII.html

The conference is organised as part of the ZAS projects P13a/b on
''Bidirectional Optimality Theory'' and ''Implicative Scales and Genetic
Learning in OT-Grammars.''

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