20.1994, Confs: Cognitive Science, Pragmatics, Semantics/Spain

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Date: 26-May-2009
From: Victoria Escandell-Vidal < procedural.meaning at gmail.com >
Subject: Procedural Meaning: Problems and Perspectives

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:04:57
From: Victoria Escandell-Vidal [procedural.meaning at gmail.com]
Subject: Procedural Meaning: Problems and Perspectives

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Procedural Meaning: Problems and Perspectives 

Date: 15-Oct-2009 - 17-Oct-2009 
Location: Madrid, Spain 
Contact: Victoria Escandell-Vidal 
Contact Email: procedural.meaning at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.uned.es/proceduralmeaning 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

The distinction between conceptual and procedural content, which represents
a new view on other classic characterizations, is a major component of Relevance
Theory. According to Wilson and Sperber (1993:1), an utterance can be expected
"to encode two basic types of information: representational and computational,
or conceptual and procedural -that is, information about the representations to
be manipulated, and information about how to manipulate them."

Research on procedural content has already produced very noteworthy results in
many areas. However, there are still a number of questions that require further
clarification and more detailed analysis. The conference is intended to be a
meeting point for those working on procedural meaning from different points of
view and to identify new challenges that will determine the directions for
research in the next few years. 

Procedural Meaning: Problems & Perspectives
October 15-17, 2009         
Madrid
http://www.uned.es/proceduralmeaning

Provisional Programme

October 15th, 2009

9:00-10:30 	
Registration 

10:30-11:10 	
Bolly, Catherine & Degand, Liesbeth (Université Catholique deLouvain, BE): 
Grammaticalization of Discourse Markers: From Conceptual to Procedural Meaning? 

11:10-11:50 	
Curcó, Carmen & Melis, Chantal (National Autonomous University of Mexico, MX): 
Diachronic Change and Procedural Meaning in the Emergence of Discourse Markers:
A Proposal

11:50-12:50 	
Opening session
Invited speaker: 
Diane Blakemore (University of Salford, UK): 
Procedural Meaning and the Representation of Thought in Fiction

12:50-14:00 	
Lunch 

14:00-14:40 	
Olmos, Susana; Innocenti, Laura & Saeed, John (Dublin Institute of Technology,
Trinity College Dublin, IE): 
The Procedure of Marking Contrast with Alternatives: A Constraint in the
Derivation of Higher Level Explicatures 

14:40-15:20 	
Blass, Regina (AIU, Nairobi,KEN):  
Interpretive Resemblance Marker and Concept Formation 

15:20-16:00 	
Reboul, Anne (L2C2, CNRS UMR5230 Lyon, FR): An Aggiornamento for
Relevance Theory: The Procedurality of So-Called Representational Concepts 

16:00-17:00 	
Coffee break and poster session 

17:00-18:00	
Invited speaker: Bruce Fraser (Boston University, USA: 
A Critical Review of the Conceptual-Procedural Distinction 

18:00-18:40 	
Espinal, M.Teresa & Prieto, Pilar (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E): 
Double Negation as Procedural Meaning in Catalan: Prosodic Correlates

18:40-19:20 	
Moeschler, Jacques (University of Geneva, CH): 
Negation as a Test for the Conceptual/Procedural Distinction 

21:00	
Conference dinner

October 16th, 2009 

9:00-9:40 	
Lucas, Christopher (University of Cambridge, UK): 
Loss of Procedural Meaning: The Case of English Weak Definites 

9:40-10:20 	
Zaki, Mai (Middlesex University, UK): 
Demonstratives and the Conceptual/Procedural Distinction 

10:20-11:00 	
Gundel, Jeannette (University of Minnesota, USA):  
Child Language, Theory of Mind, and the Role of Procedural Markers in
Identifying Referents of Nominal Expressions 

11:00-11:30 	
Coffee break 

11:30-12:30 	
Invited speaker: Thorstein Fretheim (U. Trondheim, N) 
The Use of Conceptual Meaning for a Procedural Purpose 

12:30-13:10 	
Barbet, Cécile (University of Neuchatel, CH & Opal Coast
University, FR): Toward a Relevance Theoretic Account Of The French Modal Verb
Devoir In Diachrony And Synchrony 

13:10-14:30 	
Lunch 

14:30-15:10 	
Labastía, Leopoldo Omar (Universidad Nacional del Comahue, RA):
Procedural Encoding and Tone Choice in Buenos Aires Spanish 

15:10-15:50 	
Clark, Billy & Wharton, Tim (Middlesex University, UK): 
Prosody and the Interaction of Procedural Meanings 

15:50-16:30	
Sax, Daniel (University of Warsaw, PO): 
Predictability and Non-Final Stress In English and a ''Free Word Order''
Language like Polish 

16:30-17:30 	
Coffee break and poster session 

17:30-18:30 	
Invited speaker: 
Daniel Wedgwood (U. Edinburgh, UK): 
Interpreting Procedures: Some Conceptual Issues in Meaning and Grammar 

18:30-20:30 	
Guided walking tour 

October 17th, 2009 

9:00-9:40 	
Borthen, Kaja (Dept. of Language and Communication Studies, NTNU, N):
Procedural Meaning Modeled in a Multimodular Linguistic Framework 

9:40-10:20 	
Saussure, Louis de (University of Neuchatel, CH): 
On Some Methodological Issues in the Conceptual - Procedural Distinction 

10:20-11:00 	
Unger, Christoph (SIL International and Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, D): 
Exploring the Borderline between Procedural Encoding and Pragmatic Inference 

11:00-11:30 	
Coffee break 

11:30-12:10 	
Jary, Mark (Roehampton University, UK): 
Procedural Accounts of the Declarative and Context-Change Potential 

12:10-13:10 	
Closing session
Invited speaker: Deirdre Wilson (University
College London, UK): TBA

13:10-15:00 	
Cocktail 

Further information: http://www.uned.es/proceduralmeaning

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