30.271, Calls: Cog Sci, Ling Theories, Neuroling, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 30.271, Calls: Cog Sci, Ling Theories, Neuroling, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 22:47:49
From: Maria Spychalska [m.spychalska at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop ''Reasoning, Argumentation and Logic in Natural Language: Experiments and Models''

 
Full Title: Workshop 
Short Title: RALNATLANG19 

Date: 03-Apr-2019 - 05-Apr-2019
Location: Bochum, Germany 
Contact Person: Christiane Dahl
Meeting Email: conference-ralnat at ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Web Site: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/argumentation.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Linguistic Theories; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

Workshop ''Reasoning, Argumentation and Logic in Natural Language: Experiments
and Models''

Date: April 3-5, 2019
Venue: Ruhr University Bochum
Home page: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/argumentation.html

The workshop examines reasoning, argumentation and logic from the perspective
of experimental pragmatics. Whereas these issues have a long tradition in the
philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics, research in experimental
pragmatics has come to focus on them only recently. This is surprising since
pragmatic phenomena exert strong influence on which arguments count as sound
and valid in everyday reasoning. Relevant phenomena include (a) the
disambiguation of polysemous words, (b) context effects on the interpretation
of content words and (c) pragmatic properties of logical connectives (e.g.,
order effects associated with and) as well as of quantifiers (e.g., the scalar
implicature from some to not all). The workshop focuses on (i) experimental
approaches and (ii) empirically driven models regarding these as well as other
pragmatic phenomena in the domain of argumentation and reasoning.

Plenary Talks by:

Richard Breheny (University College London)
Paul Engelhardt (UEA)
Eugen Fischer (UEA)
Yosef Grodzinsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Stefan Heim (RWTH Aachen University)
Lucy MacGregor (Cambridge University)
Ken McRae (Western University, London, Ontario)
Milena Rabovsky (Free University Berlin)
Maria Spychalska (University Cologne)
Jakub Szymanik (University of Amsterdam)
Matthias Unterhuber (Ruhr University Bochum)
Markus Werning (Ruhr University Bochum)


Call for Papers: 

The topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Scalar and other implicatures of natural language quantifiers and logical
connectives
- Rational Speech Act Theory/Bayesian pragmatics and natural language
reasoning
- Polysemy and homonymy in the context of natural language argumentation
- Neuro-cognitive modelling of comprehension, communication and reasoning
- EEG, fMRI and eye tracking methods, applied to comprehension, communication
and reasoning
- Experimental pragmatics as applied to argumentation and reasoning

Deadline for Submissions: 20-2-2019

Notification of acceptance: 1-3-2019 

Format: One-page abstract (pdf); a second page may contain references, graphs
and tables. 

Submissions can be made for presentations, posters, or both. Please submit
abstracts here:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ralnatlang19

Childcare for the duration of the workshop can be arranged. Please let us know
in advance if you intend to use this option.

This workshop is supported by priority programme XPrag (SPP1727) of the DFG.




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