28.486, Calls: Cog Sci, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 28.486, Calls: Cog Sci, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:51:55
From: Maria Spychalska [m.spychalska at gmail.com]
Subject: Revising Formal Semantic and Pragmatic Theories from a Neurocognitive Perspective

 
Full Title: Revising Formal Semantic and Pragmatic Theories from a Neurocognitive Perspective 
Short Title: NeuroPragSem 

Date: 19-Jun-2017 - 20-Jun-2017
Location: Bochum, Germany 
Contact Person: Maria Spychalska
Meeting Email: maria.spychalska at rub.de
Web Site: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/RevisingSemanticsPragmatics.html 

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

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

Workshop: Revising formal semantic and pragmatic theories from a
neurocognitive perspective

Bochum, Germany 19-20 June 2016
Note the convenient date and location: Just before the XPRAG conference in
Cologne (ca. one-hour traveling distance by a local train) 

Over the last few decades we have observed a growing interest in using
experimental methods to investigate semantic and pragmatic theories.
Experimental pragmatics has become a flourishing interdisciplinary research
area. Aside from behavioral methods, such as reaction time measurement,
eye-tracking and acceptability judgments, researchers have become increasingly
interested in investigating language processing at the neural level and by
this means shedding more light on semantic and pragmatic theories. To this
end, they have employed techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG),
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG) and
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Although this enterprise has resulted
in a large amount of interesting data about linguistic processing, the
interpretation of these results remains debated with respect to their
relevance for more formal theories of meaning. On the one hand, it often is
difficult to formulate clear processing predictions for semantic and pragmatic
theories, on the other hand, the theoretical interpretation of the activations
observed with neuroimaging tools is not fully understood. As a result, the
neurolinguistics and formal semantic/pragmatic communities remain still rather
disjoint. In this workshop we would like to bridge the gap and discuss the
challenges of combining the two approaches.

Invited Speakers:

Valentina Bambini (IUSS of Pavia)
Harm Brouwer (Saarland University)
Ira Noveck (CNRS Lyon)
Steve Politzer-Ahles (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Petra Schumacher (University of Cologne)

Organizers: 

Maria Spychalska & Markus Werning
Contact: maria.spychalska at rub.de


Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for contributed talks and posters related to the
workshop's theme, addressing problems in semantics and pragmatics with
experimental neurocognitive methods. We welcome papers presenting novel
experimental results, talks covering methodological aspects of such studies as
well as explanatory talks that aim at discussing existing data from the
perspective of refined formal semantic or pragmatic theories.

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

- The semantics/pragmatics interface
- Theories of implicatures and presuppositions
- Bayesian Pragmatics
- Semantic and pragmatic aspects of negation
- Quantifiers in natural language
- Reference resolution
- Semantic and pragmatic aspects of conditional sentences
- Pragmatic enrichment in sentence meaning composition
- Metonymy & metaphor
- Human reasoning (defeasible reasoning, syllogistic, deductive & inductive
reasoning)

Submission:

Abstracts should have maximally 1 page (1-inch margins on all sides, font size
11) plus 1 page with additional figures/tables/references.

Please submit your abstracts at:
http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=neuropragsem2017

Deadline: 31 March 2017
Notification: 15 April 2017

More information:
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/RevisingSemanticsPragmatics.html




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