37.1983, Confs: At-Issueness and Commitment: Interfaces and Interactions (Germany)

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Subject: 37.1983, Confs: At-Issueness and Commitment: Interfaces and Interactions (Germany)

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Date: 03-Jun-2026
From: Lennart Fritzsche [fritzsche at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: At-Issueness and Commitment: Interfaces and Interactions


At-Issueness and Commitment: Interfaces and Interactions
Short Title: AIC

Date: 21-Sep-2026 - 22-Sep-2026
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Contact: Lennart Fritzsche
Contact Email: fritzsche at em.uni-frankfurt.de
Meeting URL:
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/crc-common-ground/events/workshop-at-issueness-and-commitment-interfaces-and-interactions/

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

Submission Deadline: 03-Jul-2026

We invite submissions for a workshop on (the relationship between)
at-issueness and commitment in natural language semantics, pragmatics,
psycholinguistics, philosophy of language, and related fields.
At-issueness and commitment are central notions in the analysis of
meaning and discourse, each widely studied in its own right. However,
the relationship between the two remains unresolved. Existing findings
paint a mixed picture: while pragmatic inferences such as implicatures
are often associated with comparatively weak commitment attributions,
other types of non-at-issue meaning, such as presuppositions, have
been argued to involve comparatively strong commitment attributions.
Questions about the relationship between at-issueness and commitment
also arise across a wide range of phenomena, including attitude
reports, appositives, evidentials, expressive meaning, gestures, and
ideophones.
Invited Speakers:
- Corien Bary (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Martina Faller (The University of Manchester)
- Anna Kocher (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
The aim of this workshop is to bring together work that addresses the
relationship between at-issueness and commitment across theoretical
frameworks, empirical domains, and methodologies.
We welcome abstract submissions for talks or posters on topics
including (but not limited to):
- The relationship between at-issueness and commitment
- Mechanisms that modulate at-issueness and/or commitment (e.g.
evidentials, epistemic markers, commitment-shifting devices)
- At-issueness, commitment, and the common ground
- Presupposition, implicature, projection, and related phenomena at
the at-issueness–commitment interface
- Multimodal, iconic, and depictive meaning (e.g. gestures,
ideophones, prosody, quotation) and iconic marking of commitment
While a broad range of topics are welcome, submissions should make a
clear connection to at-issueness and/or commitment, ideally addressing
the relation between the two.
We currently plan for talks to be 30 minutes long, including 20
minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.
Submission Instructions:
- Abstract length: 300–500 words (excluding references as well as
glosses and translations in non-English examples)
- Format: PDF, anonymous
- Submission via LinguistList EasyAbs by July 3 23:59 CEST (creation
of an account is necessary):
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/AIC/
Submissions should present original, unpublished work. We welcome both
theoretical and empirical contributions, including pre-registered
studies, provided that the expected contribution is clearly
articulated and the work will be completed by the time of the
workshop.



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