32.2779, Calls: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics/Spain (Online)

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Subject: 32.2779, Calls: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics/Spain (Online)

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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:57:31
From: Chris Genovesi [genovesi.c at gmail.com]
Subject: Critical Pragmatics: Ten Years On

Full Title: Critical Pragmatics: Ten Years On 

Date: 15-Dec-2021 - 17-Dec-2021
Location: University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain 
Contact Person: Chris Genovesi
Meeting Email: genovesi.c at gmail.com
Web Site: https://latgroup.wixsite.com/home/critical-pragmatics-ten-years 

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

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

The Language, Action and Thought (LAT) group at the Institute for Logic,
Cognition, Language, and Information (ILCLI) invites contributions in
celebration of the 10th anniversary of Critical Pragmatics (CP). This witty
and elegant book is the result of the creative and collaborative exchanges
over a number of years between Kepa Korta and John Perry (KP). The ideas in
the book provide important insights into the received framework of pragmatics.
One of the guiding ideas, following Austin and Grice, is that language is
action whereby intentions and beliefs take centre stage. KP claim that
although Austin and Grice vindicated pragmatics from the classic code model,
remnants of it remain fully intact. For example, the authors observe that it
is commonplace in action theory to distinguish a plurality of contents for an
act—the things that one does. In pragmatic research, there is a tendency to
take utterances to have a single truth conditional content—the thing that is
said (Korta & Perry, 2011, xii). We can refer to this tendency as the ‘dogma
of mono-propositionalism’. KP are pluralists of content, and accordingly treat
utterances (and information-carrying events) as involving different levels of
contents from minimal utterance-bound content to ordinary referential content.
By acknowledging the various contents associated with an utterance, CP carves
out a unique and comprehensive framework which is semantically minimalist and
pragmatically contextualism. 

Over the last ten years, the book and the ideas therein continue to be a
driving force in research, inspiring a wide audience working in diverse areas,
including but not limited to action and communication, rhetoric,
pragmatics/semantics interface and touches upon issues including but not
limited to fiction, non-literal uses of language, unarticulated constituents,
and reference. 

DETAILS: 

The theme of the workshop is Critical Pragmatics: Ten years on and welcomes a
broad spectrum of contributions such as recent developments in CP, critical
and comparative reflections, as well as avenues for further research. Its
principal aim is to bring together linguists and philosophers for the purpose
of dialogue and discussion of CP.  

The workshop will be held online, hosted by the Language, Action and Thought
(LAT) research group at the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language, and
Information (ILCLI) at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). It will
take place December 15th to 17th 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. (tentative) each day,
Central European Time. There is the potential to publish selected papers in a
special series. 

Call for Papers:

Submission deadline: September 30, 2021

Notice of acceptance: October 25, 2021 (via email)

Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed 500 words.
Submissions must be suitable for blind review. Please attach abstracts as a
document to the email and include in the body of the email the author’s name,
affiliation, and title of paper. Interested candidates must submit to the
email address genovesi.c at gmail.com

Accepted candidates should be prepared for a 20-minute presentation, plus 10
minutes of Q&A, which will be held alongside our keynote speakers, John Perry
and Kepa Korta.

For query, you can contact genovesi.c at gmail.com and visit
https://latgroup.wixsite.com/home/critical-pragmatics-ten-years. For those
interested in submitting, please keep the website handy. 

Organizing Committee: Josu Acosta, María de Ponte, Ekain Garmendia, Joana
Garmendia, Chris Genovesi (chair), Larraitz Zubeldia.

Scientific Committee: Eros Corazza, Kepa Korta. Genoveva Martí, Eleonora
Orlando, Ernesto Perini, John Perry, Stefano Predelli, Richard Vallée.

The conference is supported in part by the Basque Government (IT1032-16), the
Spanish Government (PID2019-106078GB-I00 (MCI/AEI/FEDER, UE), and the Canadian
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (756-2019-0813).

References: 

Kepa Korta and John Perry (2011). Critical Pragmatics. An Inquiry into
Reference and Communication Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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