27.1235, Confs: Lang Acq, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/USA

Thu Mar 10 16:15:30 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-1235. Thu Mar 10 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.1235, Confs: Lang Acq, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/USA

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:15:16
From: Phoebe Gaston [pgaston at umd.edu]
Subject: Mayfest 2016: Context

Mayfest 2016: Context 

Date: 06-May-2016 - 07-May-2016 
Location: College Park, MD, USA 
Contact: Phoebe Gaston 
Contact Email: pgaston at umd.edu 
Meeting URL: http://ling.umd.edu/mayfest/2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Mayfest is a workshop in the Department of Linguistics at the University of
Maryland that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines and
perspectives to discuss fundamental issues in linguistics. This year's Mayfest
concerns the uses of context in theories of linguistic understanding. It also
doubles as PHLINC3, the third biennial conference of PHLING, our reading and
research group in Philosophy and Linguistics.

Context can play several roles in the general study of meaning: among others,
mapping from sentences to semantic contents; coordinating actions in a
rational conversation; and facilitating, via its representation in memory, the
rapid comprehension of speakers. In each case our view of how context is
involved shapes the theory of meaning to which it is auxiliary. At this
Mayfest, we invite several scholars to discuss their own work on the role of
context in a given area: semantics, pragmatics, adult or child
psycholinguistics. We also ask them to speculate on how their view might, or
might not, bear on the roles of context in other areas. How should theories of
semantic content respond to the role of context in theories of conversation?
How should theories of content or conversation respond to the representation
of context in online comprehension? Or to the developmental course of its
development in children? And how should views of context in semantics or
pragmatics affect the agenda of psycholinguistics?

The workshop will be held on May 6 and 7, 2016 at the University of Maryland
College Park campus. There is no registration fee and we welcome all visitors
to the workshop; however, for organizational purposes we do ask all guests to
register: http://tinyurl.com/h5lpxpg.

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