32.2257, Calls: Gen Ling, Philos of Lang, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 32.2257, Calls: Gen Ling, Philos of Lang, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 13:44:41
From: Marvin Schmitt [schmitt at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Commitments in Grammar and Discourse

Full Title: Commitments in Grammar and Discourse 
Short Title: Commit22 

Date: 23-Feb-2022 - 25-Feb-2022
Location: Tübingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Marvin Schmitt
Meeting Email: schmitt at leibniz-zas.de
Web Site: https://www.leibniz-zas.de/en/about-us/events/details/events/commitments-in-grammar-and-discourse-commit22 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

Workshop ''Commitments in Grammar and Discourse'' (Commit22) as part of the
44th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
(DGfS), Tübingen, February 23-25, 2022 (www.dgfs2022.uni-tuebingen.de) 

Organizers: Anton Benz, Manfred Krifka, Marvin Schmitt

Invited Speakers: Sara Murray (U Cornell), Neri Marsili (U Bologna)

Recent years witnessed a shift from the Gricean view that communication is
based on disclosing beliefs and intentions to a view that takes the
announcement of social commitments as essential (Geurts 2019, Shapiro 2020).
Commitments are a fruitful concept that bridges semantic, pragmatic, and
social meaning. Undergoing commitments can be conceived as the semantic
denotations of illocutionary acts that can be modified by linguistic means,
such as epistemic and evidential operators. People undergo commitments for
pragmatic purposes, such as bringing it about that the addressee accepts a
proposition or performs a task, and accepting or agreeing to a proposition
creates social commitments for the addressee. And commitments follow social
norms and result in obligations, be it on the microlevel of communication or
in society at large. In this way, the workshop targets the central aspect of
the theme of the 44th Annual Meeting of the DGfS, ''Sprache verpflichtet''
(''My word is my bond!''), as it brings to the fore the social foundation on
which linguistic communication is based. 

Call for Papers: 

We invite contributions that focuses on the theoretical notion of commitments
and are open to empirical applications and challenges, as well as
contributions that focus on particular phenomena and are open for theoretical
modeling in terms of commitments. The workshop should target phenomena such
assertions and other speech acts, like questions, imperatives, commands,
promises and exclamatives. This includes expressions that influence the
commitment levels directly (such as really, indeed) or indirectly, like
hedges, prosody, and epistemic and evidential operators (such as apparently,
certainly (cf. Faller 2019. Murray & Starr 2020).  

The workshop welcomes contributions to any human language, it is open in terms
of empirical procedures (corpora or experiments) and of modelling approaches
(e.g., in terms of common ground development, game theory). We will reach out
to philosophy and psychology, where issues like the norms of assertion and
signatures of trustworthiness and lying have been discussed recently (cf.
Kneer 2018, Terkourafi 2019, Marsili 2020). We are happy that Sarah Murray
(Cornell University) and Neri Marsili (U Bologna) agreed to act as invited
speakers. 

Sumbission:
Submitted talks will be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes of discussion. The
Workshop will run over three half-days, February 23-25, 2022. Please submit
abstracts of one page (with a possible second page for graphics and
references) in PDF format to EasyChair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=commit22 by September 1, 2021. 

Literature: 
Faller, Martina. 2019. The discourse commitments of illocutionary
reportatives. Semantics and Pragmatics 12: 1-46. – Geurts, Bart. 2019.
Communication as commitment sharing: speech acts, implicatures, common ground.
Theoretical Linguistics 45: 1-30. – Kneer, Markus. 2018. The norm of
assertion: Empirical data. Cognition 177: 165-171. – Marsili, Neri. 2020.
Lying, speech acts, and commitment. Synthese. –   Murray, Sarah E. & William
B. Starr. 2020. The structure of communicative acts. Linguistics and
Philosophy 1-50. – Shapiro, Lionel. 2020. Commitment accounts of assertion.
In: Goldberg, Sanford (ed), Oxford Handbook of Assertion. – Terkourafi,
Marina. 2019. Lying and politeness. In Jörg Meibauer, The Oxford handbook of
lying. 382-398.

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