28.777, Calls: Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 28.777, Calls: Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:42:22
From: Sven Lauer [sven.lauer at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Questioning Speech Acts

 
Full Title: Questioning Speech Acts 
Short Title: QSA 

Date: 14-Sep-2017 - 16-Sep-2017
Location: Konstanz, Germany 
Contact Person: Sven Lauer
Meeting Email: sven.lauer at uni-konstanz.de

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

Call Deadline: 21-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

In the last decade or so, there has been a renewed interest in speech acts
within formal semantics and pragmatics, spurred by work on topics like clause
typing, explicit performatives and discourse particles on the one hand, and
the development of new formal models for the study of pragmatics and discourse
on the other. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from various
disciplines investigating speech acts and related notions, engaging with
theoretical questions such as: 

- To what extent are the concepts of philosophical speech act theory relevant
to linguistic theory and to understanding actual conversational practice? 
- How can these concepts (or alternatives) be modelled formally? 
- How are particular speech act types represented in various frameworks, and
to what extent do different frameworks offer complementary insights? 
- How is pragmatic labor divided between different aspects of ''meaning on the
speech act level'', such as preconditions on felicitous use (such as felicity
conditions or presuppositions) and forward-looking consequences of the
utterance act (such as commitments and obligations)? 
- How do these aspects relate to similar notions studied in other fields
(e.g., laws, regulations and contractual obligations)? 
- How can commitments and other social obligations established by speech acts
be modelled formally in a way that allows us to study the interaction of such
social concerns with linguistic structure? 
- What is the relation between different classes of speech acts, such as ones
with normative impact (creating commitments/obligations) and those which are
''expressive''? How can such differences between speech acts be modelled?


Call for Papers:

In the last decade or so, there has been a renewed interest in speech acts
within formal semantics and pragmatics, spurred by work on topics like clause
typing, explicit performatives and discourse particles on the one hand, and
the development of new formal models for the study of pragmatics and discourse
on the other. 

We invite submissions of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations (plus
discussion) that address these and related questions from a theoretical,
empirical or formal perspective. 
As one goal of the workshop is cross-disciplinary communication, we encourage
submissions that engage with these issues not only from a linguistic
perspective, but also from that of related fields with an interest in speech
acts and communication, such as law, philosophy, computer science or logic.

The workshop is will take place at the University of Konstanz, Germany on
September 14-16, 2017 and will feature talks by the following invited
speakers: Joe Buffington (Albany Law), Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford), Christine
Gunlogson (Rochester), Magdalena Kaufmann (UConn), Will Starr (Cornell).

Abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages (Times 12 pt, 1 inch margins,
including all examples and figures), references may be included on a third
page. Submit abstracts by May 21 via the Easychair page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qsa17

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission: May 21, 2017
Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2017
Workshop dates: September 14 - 16, 2017

Organizers: Regine Eckardt and Sven Lauer 

In case of questions relating to the workshop, contact:
sven.lauer at uni-konstanz.de




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