32.3468, Calls: Pragmatics/China

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Subject: 32.3468, Calls: Pragmatics/China

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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2021 19:08:32
From: Mingming Liu [markliu at scarletmail.rutgers.edu]
Subject: 3rd Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning: Dynamics in Logic and Language

 
Full Title: 3rd Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning: Dynamics in Logic and Language 
Short Title: TLLM2022 

Date: 01-Apr-2022 - 03-Apr-2022
Location: Beijing, China 
Contact Person: Mingming Liu
Meeting Email: markliu at scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Web Site: http://tsinghualogic.net/JRC/?page_id=3591 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 20-Nov-2021 

Meeting Description:

The ‘dynamic turn’ in logic and language is now almost fifty years old. The
mid- to late 1970s and early 80s saw the appearance both of adaptations of
logics for reasoning about programs in computer science to the setting of
modal logic and Kripke semantics, such as Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL,
Pratt, Fischer and Ladner, Segerberg, and others), and of proposals in natural
language semantics, such as the Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) of Kamp
and the File Change Semantics of Heim, to extend ‘static’ truth-conditional
semantics for propositions to a dynamic semantics for discourse. Of course,
‘dynamic’ is a vague term. Kripke style semantics, with its rich repertoire of
relations between states (of information, of program execution, of belief, of
common ground, …), is well suited as a framework for describing dynamic
processes. Such descriptions can still take the meaning of a sentence,
classically, to be the set of states in which it is true. Kamp and Heim style
semantics changes the notion of meaning itself, now viewed as an instruction
for how to update the current set of states when the sentence is accepted; put
differently, as a context/information change potential. 

Since then, logical dynamics and dynamics in linguistic semantics have each
developed into vast and fairly well-defined areas of research, largely
independent of each other although there have also been points of contact. In
logic, besides describing the behavior of programs, systems modeling the
actions of agents based on their attitudes (knowledge, belief, goals, …) have
been developed by scholars at the interface of logic, philosophy, computer
science, artificial intelligence, and social sciences. The basic setting is
still modal; Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) brings updating actions like
announcements with various degrees of persuasive power explicitly into the
object language syntax, while other approaches keep a more standard syntax but
assign new dynamic meanings. 

In linguistics, Kamp and Heim style dynamic semantics was originally
introduced to deal with anaphora, quantification, and presupposition
projection. It has since been applied to an array of linguistic phenomena,
such as epistemic modals, conditionals, plurals, tense and aspect, generalized
quantifiers, propositional attitudes, vagueness, and discourse relations.
Other approaches to extending classical truth-conditional meaning to a dynamic
setting include situation semantics, dynamic predicate logic (DPL), variants
of game-theoretic semantics, and more recently, inquisitive semantics which
treats statements and questions on a par.


2nd Call for Papers:

Invited Speakers
Maria Aloni (Amsterdam)
Johan van Benthem (Stanford, Tsinghua)
Hans Kamp (Stuttgart, Austin)
Haihua Pan (Hongkong) 

Tutorials
Dynamics in Logic (Johan van Benthem)
Dynamics in Language (Maria Aloni)

We invite submissions of 2-page abstracts (including references) on any of the
broad themes related to dynamics in logic and language as suggested above.
After a review procedure, authors of accepted abstracts will have the
opportunity to present their papers at the workshop. After the workshop, a
volume of full papers (properly refereed) will be published in the Springer
LNCS – FoLLI series. Details on submission of full papers will follow. 

Abstracts should be submitted via Easychair: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tllm2022 

The workshop is planned to take place on site at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
If travel restrictions still make this difficult, we plan to postpone it until
the fall of 2022, and/or hold the workshop online.




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