29.1752, Calls: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Italy

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Subject: 29.1752, Calls: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Italy

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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:45:14
From: Fabienne Salfner [xprag.de at gmail.com]
Subject: Scalar Implicatures: Formal and Experimental Exploration

 
Full Title: Scalar Implicatures: Formal and Experimental Exploration 

Date: 11-Jul-2018 - 13-Jul-2018
Location: Siena, Italy 
Contact Person: Salvatore Pistoia-Reda
Meeting Email: pistoia-reda at leibniz-zas.de
Web Site: http://www.xprag.de/?page_id=5455 

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

Call Deadline: 01-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

Organizers:

Salvatore Pistoia-Reda (ZAS Berlin, U Siena), Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin),
Filippo Domaneschi (U Genoa for XPRAG.it), Valentina Bianchi (U Siena)

Time and venue:

11-13 July 2018 in Siena, Italy

This workshop focuses on recent developments in the theory of scalar
implicatures with the intention to raise new issues suitable for formal and
experimental exploration. The general discussion in the recent linguistic and
philosophical literature has debated on the very nature of scalar
implicatures, i.e. on whether scalar implicatures are computed as part of a
conversational strategy to maximize informativity or rather as entailments
from the semantic content of scalar sentences. Specific research questions
have included the status of free choice inferences, the interaction between
scalar implicatures and other phenomena, e.g. presuppositions, the
relationship between scalar implicatures computation and the exhaustive
interpretation of questions, and the interaction between the scalar
implicatures mechanism and contextual knowledge. A special session of the
workshop will be devoted to the discussion of the supposed contextual
blindness of scalar implicatures, with special emphasis on recent developments
in complex environments, e.g. conjunctions, and on different proposals
concerning the definition of the ordering relation among alternatives.

Invited speakers:

Lyn Frazier (U Mass Amherst)
Napoleon Katsos (U Cambridge)
Roni Katzir (U Tel Aviv)
Marie-Christine Meyer (ZAS Berlin)
Benjamin Spector (IJN Paris)


Call for Papers:

We seek contributions that tackle any topics discussed in the recent
literature on scalar implicatures and related phenomena, and that strive to
expand existing accounts with formal proposals and with new methods of
experimentation. We particular encourage submissions concerning the conceptual
blindness assumption and scalar implicatures and presuppositions in L1 and L2
acquisition, with the aim of organizing separate thematic sessions.

Please submit your abstracts via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sifee18 by May 1, 2018 at the latest.
The abstract must not exceed two pages.

Important dates:

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2018
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2018




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