30.4809, Calls: Cog Sci, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Netherlands

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Subject: 30.4809, Calls: Cog Sci, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Netherlands

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 08:12:02
From: Daniel Lassiter [danlassiter at stanford.edu]
Subject: Approaches to Implicature: Rational Choice and/or Exhaustification

 
Full Title: Approaches to Implicature: Rational Choice and/or Exhaustification 
Short Title: Implic-2020 

Date: 10-Aug-2020 - 14-Aug-2020
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Daniel Lassiter
Meeting Email: danlassiter at stanford.edu
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/approachestoimplicature/home 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

Workshop as part of ESSLLI 2020 (Utrecht, 3-14 August 2020,
https://www.esslli.eu/ )

Summary:

Recent work in implicature has seen a great deal of activity within two lines
of research: the rational choice approach associated with game-theoretic
pragmatics and the Bayesian Rational Speech Act framework, and the
exhaustification-based approach. While these frameworks have generally been
thought to be in theoretical tension, there are also underexplored ways to
combine them, with the potential to benefit both approaches. The workshop will
explore explicit comparisons between the two frameworks as well as efforts to
combine them, with the hope of producing a more unified theory of implicature
and a more general understanding of the data that such a theory must account
for.

Organizers:

Judith Degen (Stanford)
Benjamin Spector (Institut Jean Nicod)
Daniel Lassiter (Stanford)

With any questions, please email the organizers at implic2020 at easychair.org.

Invited Speakers (confirmed):

Michael Franke (Uni Osnabrück)
Marie-Christine Meyer (ZAS)
Alexandre Cremers (Universiteit van Amsterdam)


Call for Papers:

Submission details:

We welcome 2-page abstracts for presentations on topics related to the
workshop theme, with an optional 3rd page for references and large figures.
Depending on submissions received, there may also be a poster session. 
Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format (12-point font, 1.5-cm or 1-in
margins) to the Easychair site:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=implic2020

Submissions must be received by 11:59PM Utrecht time (GMT +1) on 15 February
2020. 
Notifications will be issued by 1 April 2020. Note that presenters must
register to attend ESSLLI 2020 (https://www.esslli.eu/).

Example topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Applications of RSA or other probabilistic pragmatics models to phenomena in
semantics/pragmatics
- Applications of exhaustification-based approaches to phenomena in
semantics/pragmatics
- Approaches to pragmatic inference that explicitly compare and/or combine
theoretical perspectives
- Implicature, presupposition, not-at-issue content, expressive meaning,
social meaning




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