14.2796, Calls: Semantics/Germany; Sociolinguistics/Iceland

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-2796. Thu Oct 16 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.2796, Calls: Semantics/Germany; Sociolinguistics/Iceland

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1)
Date:  Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:08:52 +0000
From:  benz at sitkom.sdu.dk
Subject:  Games and Decisions in Pragmatics

2)
Date:  Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:07:45 +0000
From:  wise_linguist at yahoo.fr
Subject:  Language Policy and Standardization

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:08:52 +0000
From:  benz at sitkom.sdu.dk
Subject:  Games and Decisions in Pragmatics

Games and Decisions in Pragmatics
Short Title: GDP

Date: 24-OCT-03 - 25-OCT-03
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact: Anton Benz
Contact Email: benz at zas.gwz-berlin.de
Meeting URL: http://www.anton-benz.de/gdp/gdp.html

Linguistic Sub-field: Semantics, Pragmatics

Call Deadline: 01-SEP-03

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims at discussing possibilities and limits of game and
decision theory in linguistics. Game and Decision Theory (GDT) are
widely used frameworks for modelling rational interacting agents. They
are natural candidates if we look for a foundation of linguistic
pragmatics. Recently there has been some progress in applying game and
decision theory to problems related e.g. to bidirectional optimality
theory (OT), Griceian pragmatics and extensions of dynamic semantics
(questions, presuppositions). This conference offers an opportunity
for discussing possibilities and limits of game and decision theory in
linguistics.

If you intend to participate, please send an e-mail in advance to the
organisers.

Speakers:

Nicholas Allott: Game theory, communication and radical pragmatics

Nicholas Asher: tba

Anton Benz: Learning, Partial Blocking, and the Optimisation of
Language Use

Gerhard Jaeger: The Evolution of Weak Bidirectional OT

Roger Kibble: Trust and Discourse Structure in a Communication Game

Prashant Parikh: Speaker Meaning and Conversational Implicatures

Robert van Rooy: Costly Signalling and conventional meaning: Punishing
Deception and Rewarding Underspecification

Madison Williams: Focal Point Based Equilibrium Selection and the Horn
Strategies

Program: http://www.anton-benz.de/gdp/programme.html

Organization:

Hosted by the ZAS Berlin

Organised by Anton Benz and the Optimality Theory Project at ZAS
Contact: benz at zas.gwz-berlin.de


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Date:  Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:07:45 +0000
From:  wise_linguist at yahoo.fr
Subject:  Language Policy and Standardization

Language Policy and Standardization
Date: 04-OCT-03 - 04-OCT-03
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Contact: Ari Páll Kristinsson
Contact Email: aripk at ismal.hi.is
Meeting URL: http://www.ismal.hi.is/Radstefna2003ENS.html

Linguistic Sub-field: Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2004

Meeting Description:

Conference on Language Policy and Standardization, Reykjavik, 4 Oct
2003.  Arranged by The Icelandic Language Council.  Among invited
speakers: Ulrich Ammon, Deborah Cameron and Lars Vikør.

Language Planning and Language Management in Algeria: a
Sociolinguistic Approach

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