25.4543, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics, Cognitive Sci, Psycholing, Linguistic Theories/Poland

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Subject: 25.4543, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics, Cognitive Sci, Psycholing, Linguistic Theories/Poland

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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:53:10
From: Susanna Melkonian [smelkonian at phil.uni-duesseldorf.de]
Subject: 16th Szklarska Poreba Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics

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Full Title: 16th Szklarska Poreba Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics 

Date: 20-Feb-2015 - 23-Feb-2015
Location: Szklarska Poreba, Poland 
Contact Person: Susanna Melkonian
Meeting Email: szklarskaporebaworkshop16 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/szklarskaporebaworkshop16/call-for-papers 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 05-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

Linguists, logicians, philosophers, psychologists, and interested researchers from other areas are cordially invited to join the 16th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics to be held on the top of the Szrenica mountain in the Giant Mountains on the border of Poland and the Czech Republic on 20-23 February 2015.

The two main themes of this year's convention are (1) “Mental Representation of Semantic and Pragmatic Lexical Knowledge” and (2) “The Role of Linguistics in the Cognitive Sciences”.

Confirmed invited speakers are Jaroslav Peregrin (Charles University Prague), Judith Tonhauser (Ohio State University, with 97% certainty), Berit Gehrke (CNRS / Paris Diderot), Irina Simanova (DCC, Radboud University Nijmegen), and Reinhard Blutner (retired, University of Amsterdam).

Call for Papers:

The two main themes of this year's convention are (1) “Mental Representation of Semantic and Pragmatic Lexical Knowledge” and (2) “The Role of Linguistics in the Cognitive Sciences”. The first theme will be taking up recent discussions of mental representation in linguistics (e.g., frames), computational linguistics (e.g., distributional knowledge combined with other representation), and cognitive science (e.g., embodied cognition), and hopes for contributions from different disciplinary perspectives. Given the strong methodological and theoretical influence by other disciplines on linguistics, our second theme will address the current state and future of linguistics: Are there properly linguistic objects of investigation? What contributions from linguistics can the cognitive sciences hope for?

We especially invite submissions related to these topics but also welcome contributions relevant to any of the more classical subjects of this workshop series. Experimental as well as theoretical approaches are welcome. We in particular encourage the presentation of innovative ideas, even if still in need of later refinement.

We invite submission of blind abstracts of no longer than 250 words in PDF, to be sent to szklarskaporebaworkshop16 at gmail.com. 

Relevant topics for the themes include:

- Mental representation of lexical knowledge
- Embodied Cognition and the role of sensorimotor activation in language processing
- Interrelations between linguistics and (other) cognitive sciences
- Objects of investigation for linguistics

And more traditional Szklarska Poreba themes:

- Coordination on meaning
- Inference in natural language
- Experimental semantics and pragmatics
- Bayesian models of interpretation
- Quantum cognition and language
- Grammaticalisation and other approaches to diachrony
- Language typology and semantics/pragmatics
- Game theoretical pragmatics
- Formal models of language acquisition
- Explicature and implicature
- The architecture of the syntax/semantics interface
- Licensing of polarity elements, quantification, etc.
- The evolution of communication and language
- Optimality theory

Dates:

Deadline for abstracts: 5 January 2015
Decision: 15 January 2015
Workshop: 20-23 February 2015

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