21.2410, Calls: Disc Analysis, Pragmatics/Germany

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Subject: 21.2410, Calls: Disc Analysis, Pragmatics/Germany

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Date: 31-May-2010
From: Katja Jasinskaja < jasinsk at ims.uni-stuttgart.de >
Subject: Implicatures and Discourse Structure
 

	
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Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 17:13:18
From: Katja Jasinskaja [jasinsk at ims.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Implicatures and Discourse Structure

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Full Title: Implicatures and Discourse Structure 

Date: 23-Feb-2011 - 25-Feb-2011
Location: Göttingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Fabienne Salfner
Meeting Email: salfner at zas.gwz-berlin.de
Web Site: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_diskursstruktur.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 20-Jul-2010 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Implicatures and Discourse Structure
Organizers: Anton Benz, Katja Jasinskaja, Fabienne Salfner

Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German 
Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held in Göttingen, Germany, February 23-
25, 
2011

Human communication is characterized by the ability to convey more 
information than uttered just by words. There are two major theoretical 
frameworks that approach this matter from different perspectives: one is the 
theory of rhetorical relations that characterizes the macro-structure of 
discourse. This approach derives the additional content from the kind of 
connection between discourse segments. The other approach is the theory 
of conversational implicatures, which usually considers a single speech act 
and derives the additional content from the assumption that the 
communication participants observe the conversational maxims. The 
workshop will provide a platform to discuss the interplay of these two 
aspects of pragmatic inference: discourse structure and implicatures. 

Keynote speakers:
Bart Geurts
Nicholas Asher

Programme committee:
Nicholas Asher
Maria Averintseva-Klisch
Anton Benz
Christian Chiarcos
Michael Franke
Bart Geurts
Katja Jasinskaja
Elena Karagjosova
Edgar Onea
Janina Radó
Uli Sauerland 
Fabienne Salfner
Barbara Schmiedtova
Maria Spychalska
Carla Umbach
Kazuko Yatsushiro
Henk Zeevat 

Call For Papers

We invite talks related (but not limited) to one of the following topics:

- The identification of discourse parameters (discourse relations, topic 
structure, gestures etc.) which affect or are affected by the derivation of 
implicatures;
- Experimental or corpus-based studies on the interaction of discourse 
structure and implicatures;
- Discourse dependency of generalized vs. particularized implicatures;
- Theoretical models of the interaction of implicatures and discourse.

The studies can be embedded in any theoretical framework including:

- (S)DRT
- question-based models
- game theory
- optimality theory
- relevance theory

or not represent any specific framework. 

Abstracts:

Please submit anonymous abstracts of 2 pages including examples and 
references in the PDF format via EasyChair at 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ag4dgfs2011
The abstracts should include a title, the research question, an indication of 
the theoretical framework and/or empirical methodology and a brief 
summary of the results. Accepted papers will be allotted 30 min. including 
discussion. The languages of the conference are English and German.

Important dates:

July 20, 2010:        Abstract submission deadline
September 1, 2010:    Notification of acceptance
December 1, 2010:     Final abstracts for the conference proceedings
February 23-25, 2011: Workshop





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