workshop on the significance of inquisitiveness in semantics, pragmatics, logic, and discourse analysis

[Floris Roelofsen]

Inquisitiveness

https://sites.google.com/site/inquisitivesemantics/workshops/inquisitiveness-2011

Hosted by the Amsterdam Colloquium <http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2011/>
December 19-21, 2011

Invited speaker
Manfred Krifka <http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/lehrstuhl.html>,
Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin

Call for papers Questions and answers are a major topic in semantics and
pragmatics, and to some extent in logic and philosophy as well. This
interest in inquisitiveness goes beyond the interpretation of questions as
such. For example, questions are widely assumed to play a structural role in
the analysis of discourse. Likewise, most theories on focus and the
interpretation of intonation make a link with the question-answerhood
relation. More radically it has been argued that a proper understanding of
seemingly purely informative constructions, like disjunctions and
conditionals, requires a notion of inquisitiveness as a basic ingredient of
meaning. The main aim of this workshop is to investigate the significance of
inquisitiveness for semantics, pragmatics, and logic.
 Instructions for authors
Authors can submit *anonymous* abstracts of at most *two pages *via the
website of the Amsterdam
Colloquium<http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2011/#/Submission/>
.
Important dates
Submission deadline:  September 1, 2011
Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2011
Deadline for pre-proceedings: December 1, 2011
Deadline for registration: December 1, 2011
Conference: December 19 - 21, 2011
Organizers
Jeroen Groenendijk <http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.a.g.groenendijk/>
Floris Roelofsen <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~froelofs/>
Matthijs Westera <http://www.phil.uu.nl/~westera/index.shtml>
Floris
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