35.2264, Calls: International Pragmatics Conference Panel: Speech Acts meet the Common Ground

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Subject: 35.2264, Calls: International Pragmatics Conference Panel: Speech Acts meet the Common Ground

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Date: 13-Aug-2024
From: Manfred Krifka [krifka at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: International Pragmatics Conference Panel: Speech Acts meet the Common Ground


Full Title: International Pragmatics Conference Panel: Speech Acts
meet the Common Ground
Short Title: IPC19

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Manfred Krifka
Meeting Email: krifka at leibniz-zas.de
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics;
Sociolinguistics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

This is one of the panels of the International Pragmatics Conference.

Call for Papers:

Call for participation in the workshop: Speech Acts meet the Common
Ground

We invite contributions to a workshop:

Title: Speech Acts meet the Common Ground
Venue: International Pragmatics Conference (IPC19) of the
International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Dates: 22-27 June, 2025
Submission deadline: November 1, 2024
Organizers:  Manfred Krifka (ZAS) and Paul Portner (Georgetown
University)

The notions of a speech act, as linguistic actions that typically come
with an intended social effect (Austin 1962, Searle 1969), and common
ground, as the body of information that the interlocutors assume to be
shared at a particular point in conversation (Stalnaker 1974, 2002,
Heim 1983, Clark 1996), have long been used parallel traditions in
semantics and pragmatics. Despite some early discussions of how they
might be combined (Gazdar 1981, Levinson 1983), it has not been until
recent years that it became clear just to what extent a theory
incorporating insights from both might be more than the sum of its
parts. On the one hand, common ground models have expanded their reach
from simple informative updates to a greater variety of acts that had
previously been described in terms of speech act theory, including
questions (Roberts 1996, Roelofsen & Dotlačil 2023), imperatives
(Portner 2004), commitment (Geurts 2019), and honorification (Potts &
Kawahara 2004).  On the other, as scholars have incorporated tools
from these common ground models, speech act theories have become more
precise, better connected to syntax (Wiltschko 2021, Krifka 2024) and
better able to model sequential features of communication (Krifka
2022).

The panel seeks to create a forum for investigating the potential and
also possible limitations in combining common ground models and speech
act theory. Across 90 minute sessions, it will incorporate:

1.      An introduction by one of the organizers into the current
state of research (30 min)
2.      Submitted contributions (30-minute sessions of 20 min talk+10
min question period)
3.      A  concluding general discussion led by one of the organizers
(30 min)

We invite contributions that concern all types and modifications of
speech acts (e.g. epistemics and evidentials, strengthening and
mitigation, bias and balance), to considerations of their relevance,
their social and cognitive aspects, their sequencing in conversation
and their acquisition, provided they attempt to capture them in a
model of common ground change.

Submissions should be made via the Official IPrA2025 Call for Papers
site:
 https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025
(further information on submission format is available at this site)

Submissions are due by 1 November 2024 (23:59 PDT)

Note that the conference also encourages poster submissions, and we
are happy to consider posters under the theme of the workshop, but the
workshop session itself will consist of only papers.



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