35.2591, Calls: Workshop: Background Beliefs in the Construction of Meaning

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Subject: 35.2591, Calls: Workshop: Background Beliefs in the Construction of Meaning

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Date: 23-Sep-2024
From: Asya Achimova [asya.achimova at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Workshop: Background Beliefs in the Construction of Meaning


Full Title: Workshop: Background Beliefs in the Construction of
Meaning

Date: 09-Jan-2025 - 10-Jan-2025
Location: Tübingen, Germany
Contact Person: Asya Achimova
Meeting Email: asya.achimova at uni-tuebingen.de

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

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

Organizers: Asya Achimova (University of Tübingen), Elin McCready
(Aoyama Gakuin University), Dan Harris (Hunter College, CUNY)
Date: January 9 - 10, 2025

Emmy Noether research group “Socially-relevant pragmatic inference”
(University of Tübingen) is organizing a kick-off workshop “Background
beliefs in the construction of meaning”.

The process of utterance interpretation depends not only on the
linguistic properties of the utterance, but also on the background
beliefs of the listener, her ideology, and perspective. In this
workshop, we ask how these factors affect the construction of meaning.

We bring together formal semantics, philosophy of language,
psycholinguistics,  and computational modeling to ask what types of
utterances depend on background beliefs and perspectives in their
interpretation, how background beliefs can be integrated in the
process of drawing pragmatic inferences, what types of beliefs matter
for the interpretation of utterances, and how background beliefs
relate to the linguistic notions of context and common ground.

Invited speakers:

Jennifer Saul (University of Waterloo)
Mandy Simons (Carnegie Mellon University)
Judith Tonhauser (University of Stuttgart)
Greg Scontras (University of California, Irvine)
Natasha Korotkova (University College Utrecht)
Paula Rubio-Fernández (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Peter van Elswyk (Northwestern University)

Conference fee: free

Registration: please send an email to asya.achimova at uni-tuebingen.de
by January 3, 2025 if you are planning to attend the workshop.

Call for Papers:

We are inviting submissions for 15-minute oral presentations or
posters. Please submit an anonymous 500-word abstract as a pdf file to
asya.achimova at uni-tuebingen.de by November 10, 2024. Please indicate
in your submission the preferred presentation format.

Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2024



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