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<p>De la part de Maria Teresa Espinal<br>
<a href="mailto:teresa.espinal%40uab.cat">teresa.espinal@uab.cat</a><br>
<br>
Call for papers for the workshop on Information, Discourse Structure<br>
and Levels of Meaning (IDL 12)<br>
25-26 October 2012 in Barcelona<br>
<br>
More info:<a href="http://blogs.uab.cat/idl12/">http://blogs.uab.cat/idl12/</a><br>
Deadline for abstracts submissions: 16-Apr-2012<br>
<br>
Information and discourse structure, and the analysis of different<br>
levels of meaning (conventional and conversational implicatures,<br>
presuppositions, etc.) have been two of the most fruitful areas of<br>
research in the semantics-pragmatics interface in the last decade.<br>
This workshop aims to study the interactions between these two areas.<br>
Thus, the questions that this workshop will address go in two<br>
directions.<br>
<br>
1. How does information and discourse structure affect the different<br>
levels of meaning? Can we obtain a better understanding of, for<br>
instance, conversational implicatures or presuppositions, once the<br>
topic-focus structure is taken into account?<br>
2. How do the dimensions of meaning affect the information structure<br>
of discourse? Can we obtain a better understanding of concepts such as<br>
topic, focus, contrastive topic, background or QUD, once the<br>
properties of the different levels of meaning are taken into account?<br>
<br>
Invited speakers:<br>
Daniel Büring (Universität Wien)<br>
Bart Geurts (Radboud University Nijmegen)<br>
Craige Roberts (Ohio State University)<br>
Gregory Ward (Northwestern University)<br>
<br>
We invite contributions related (but not limited) to the following topics:<br>
- Recently, there have been proposals to relate the behavior of<br>
conventional implicatures (CIs) and presuppositions to the Question<br>
Under Discussion (Simons et. al. 2011) as a unifying mechanism to<br>
account for their projectivity, while others account for the<br>
projective behavior of CIs through other means (Potts, 2005). What is<br>
the proper account of projective behavior of CIs and presuppositions?<br>
What is the relationship between projectivity and discourse structure?<br>
- The study of information structure has developed quite independently<br>
of the (neo-)Gricean discussion on "what is said" and "what is<br>
implicated". How do notions like focus and topic fit into the classical<br>
Gricean picture? For instance, what is the relationship between<br>
information structure and conversational implicature? Can the<br>
calculation of a conversational implicature depend on the discourse<br>
structure?<br>
- The classical (neo-)Gricean picture stemming from Stalnaker's<br>
contribution strongly restricts the interactions between different<br>
dimensions of meaning. Whereas presuppositions are previous to "what<br>
is said", implicatures are by definition derived from "what is said".<br>
Yet, Geurts (2010) has called for a new picture where (conversational)<br>
implicatures can be derived from presuppositions. How does this new<br>
picture modify the Gricean conception of "what is said", and the<br>
limits between semantics and pragmatics? Which range of interactions<br>
should pragmatics allow?<br>
- Dislocations, particularly in Romance languages, require that the<br>
detached information be either part of the common ground or that it<br>
can be bridged, with remarkable differences between left and right<br>
dislocations. What is the relationship between such bridging phenomena<br>
and presupposition accommodation? Are they the same species?<br>
- The semantic/pragmatic distinction between assertion and<br>
presupposition has commonly been paired with the informational<br>
distinction between new and old information. However, as argued by<br>
Abbott (2010), this view runs into trouble when we consider certain<br>
constructions which combine presupposed and new informational content<br>
(e.g. uniquely identifying descriptions or reverse wh-clefts). To what<br>
extent do these cases are accounted for by the standard Stalnakerian<br>
theory of common ground plus accommodation? Are these cases instances<br>
of Schlenker's 'informative presuppositions' (Schlenker, 2007)?<br>
- The concept of contrast has been claimed to play a role in<br>
information structure, particularly in connection with focus (Rooth<br>
1992, Krifka 2008), but also in cases of (clitic) left-dislocation<br>
(Vallduví 1992, López 2009). To what extent is contrast a<br>
well-de fined concept? Is it a semantic or a pragmatic notion? How<br>
does it interact with presupposition? Does it play any role in<br>
licensing implicatures?<br>
<br>
We invite contributions on these aspects for 30′ oral presentations.<br>
Abstracts should conform to the following guidelines:<br>
<br>
-Abstracts must be submitted electronically via Easychair:<br>
<a href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=idl12">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=idl12</a><br>
-Abstracts should be anonymous.<br>
-Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including examples and references.<br>
-Submissions are restricted to one single-authored or one co-authored<br>
abstract at most.<br>
-The conference language is English: abstracts and talks will be in English.<br>
-Page format: A4, 2.5 cm margins on all sides, at least 12 pt Times<br>
New Roman font, single line spacing.<br>
-File format: .pdf<br>
-File name: surname.pdf<br>
<br>
Organized by Laia Mayol (UPF) and Xavier Villalba (UAB).<br>
IDL12 is an initiative of the funded research project<br>
“Compositionality of meaning and semantic operations at the<br>
syntax-semantics and grammar-cognition interface (COMPOSING)”<br>
(FFI2011-23356).<br>
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