27.1550, Calls: Cog Sci, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 27.1550, Calls: Cog Sci, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 11:29:18
From: Kristina Liefke [Kristina.Liefke at lrz.uni-muenchen.de]
Subject: Situations, Information, and Semantic Content

Full Title: Situations, Information, and Semantic Content 
Short Title: Situated Content 2016 

Date: 16-Dec-2016 - 18-Dec-2016
Location: Munich, Bavaria, Germany 
Contact Person: Kristina Liefke
Meeting Email: SituatedContent2016 at lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Web Site: http://www.situatedcontent2016.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Language; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 29-May-2016 

Meeting Description:

Backgrounds, Aim, and Scope:

The semantic content of natural language is multiply situated: Whether an
utterance receives one interpretation or another depends on the discourse
situation (in which the utterance takes place), on the target situation (which
is described by the utterance), and on the interpreting agents' informational
situation (which also contains the agents' background knowledge). Over the
past decades, work on extralinguistic context-dependence has focused on
discourse situations and target situations, and has paid less attention to the
dependence of interpretation on the agents' informational situation. However,
this kind of information-dependence plays a crucial role in the explanation of
a number of semantic phenomena, including the behavior of epistemic/deontic
modals and propositional attitude-sentences. Recent research in situated
cognition has suggested an even more general scope of semantic
information-dependence. The latter assumes that cognition (and therefore, all
linguistic understanding) is fundamentally embedded in the situational context
of the cognition.

This workshop aims to bring together linguists, philosophers, logicians, and
cognitive and computer scientists to discuss the information-dependence of the
semantic content of natural language. It covers all aspects of the interaction
between situations, information, and semantic content -- both theoretical and
experimental --, including

- agents' information and semantic content
- the scope of information-dependence in natural language
- analyses of semantic phenomena featuring information-dependence
- experiments on semantic information-dependence
- the impact of agents' information on attitude attributions
- semantic aspects of situated cognition
- situation theory and situation semantics
- data semantics and dynamic/update semantics
- (partial) information and situations
- the formal analysis of (informational) situations
- the formal analysis of background knowledge
- partiality of information
- type-theoretic approaches to information

Invited Speakers:

- Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg)
- Nikola Kompa (Osnabrück University)
- Roussanka Loukanova (Stockholm University)
- Friedrike Moltmann (CNRS Paris, New York University)
- Floris Roelofsen (University of Amsterdam/ILLC)
- Markus Werning (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Goethe University of Frankfurt)
- more speakers to be confirmed

Program Committee:

- Gregory Bochner (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Dirk Kindermann (University of Graz)
- Roussanka Loukanova (Stockholm University)
- Gil Sagi (LMU Munich/MCMP)
- Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
- Augustin Vincente (Ikerbasque Foundation of Science/UPV-EHU)
- Markus Werning (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Jack Woods (University of Leeds)
- Dan Zeman (University of the Basque Country)
- Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Goethe University of Frankfurt)

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of extended abstracts for talks (for 30+10-minute
presentations) or posters on any aspect of semantic information-dependence.
Submissions should include a title, a short abstract (max. 100 words), and an
extended abstract (max. 1.000 words including references) and should be
prepared for blind peer review. 

Submissions should be made via the workshop's EasyChair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=situatedcontent2016

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