July 15, 2010
Call for papers: New Trends on Experimental Psycholinguistics
Here's an early call for papers for a workshop in Madrid in September next year (deadline for abstracts 1st April 2011). The main workshop url is
http://www.linguistic-institute.info/experimental.htm
and the call for papers is here:
http://www.linguistic-institute.info/callexp.htm
Billy
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July 7, 2010
Post-Doc in Experimental Pragmatics
A two year Postdoctoral Research Associate is required to work on an ESRC funded project entitled, "The time course of inferences in language comprehension," awarded to Dr. Lewis Bott, Dr Todd Bailey and Dr. Dan Grodner. The project involves developing and testing processing models of how linguistic inferences are understood. The successful candidate will have a PhD in a Linguistics or Cognitive Psychology, and experience of psycholinguistics research. Desirable criteria include familiarity with theoretical linguistic pragmatics and expertise in online psycholinguistics techniques such as eyetracking. Please contact Dr. Lewis Bott (BottLA@Cardiff.ac.uk) for informal enquiries or see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABJ191/research-associate/ for application details. The deadline for applications is 26th July, 2010.
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Cardiff School of Psychology
The School of Psychology at Cardiff is one of the largest and most successful departments of psychology in the United Kingdom. There are currently over 50 academic staff, 100+ research staff and a further 20+ Research Fellows (including Royal Society, BBSRC, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust and British Academy Research Fellows). The School also has over 120 full-time students studying for Doctorates, both in research and on our professional Doctorate programmes. The quality and relevance of our research has been recognised in every Research Assessment Exercise. High rankings in the 2008 results follow the highest possible ratings under the assessments in 1996 and 2001.
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February 12, 2010
Call for Papers: LODZ PAPERS IN PRAGMATICS
From Kasia Dyzman:
Developments in Experimental Pragmatics
The upcoming issue of LPP aims at presenting and exploring new research evidence concerning a range of pragmatic phenomena by employing experimental methodologies developed in psycholinguistics and experimental social psychology to investigate issues raised in linguistic-pragmatics literature.
We welcome contributions on a wide range of issues, such as: psychology of reasoning, spontaneous communicative inferencing, macro- and micro-pragmatic analysis of reasoning tasks, automaticity vs. controllability of pragmatic processes, psychological and neurophysiological investigations into online comprehension processes of (figurative) communication, weak and strong communication, speaker's meaning versus sentence meaning, processing models of sentence and utterance meaning, figurative language comprehension, direct and indirect speech acts, explicatures and implicatures, reference resolution, quantifiers scope, lexical disambiguation, and other issues of interest to pragmalinguistics.
The interdisciplinary framework of experimental pragmatics offers an opportunity to explore a range of communicative meaning phenomena that have been so far explored separately in autonomous and unconnected domains of linguistics, psychology and neurology. In order to obtain detailed communicative comprehension models of (on-line) meaning construction, interdisciplinary approach needs to be adopted to allow for integrating both theory and research tools of all the branches of cognitive sciences that strive to uncover the nature meaning.
For more information: Go to http://versita.com/science/socialsciences/lpp/
Deadline: 3-May-2010
Contact:
Dr. Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (LPP editor): iw.plisiecka@gmail.com
Dr. Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, (LPP special issue guest editor) kasia.dyzman@ifa.amu.edu.pl
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January 9, 2010
Second call for ESF EURO-XPRAG Collaborations
After the success of the first call for proposals concerning Collaborative research in Experimental Pragmatics, the EURO-XPRAG ESF Network will soon be announcing its second one. These are grants that allow for travel in order to prepare and carry out Experimental Pragmatic projects. This time we are open to (a limited number of) collaborations that include non-Europeans. Those whose proposals are accepted will be requested to present their plans and progress at a Workshop in Leuven in June. Deadline: 18 February.
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Bart Geurts's Mansucript on Quantity Implicatures
"This book is about one simple idea: that speakers convey information not only by what they say, by also by what they don't say."
Thus begins the (draft of the) book entitled Quantity Implicatures by Bart Geurts. To read more click below.
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September 29, 2009
Doctoral and Post-Doctoral posts in Nijmegen
1 POST-DOCTORAL AND 2 DOCTORAL (PhD) POSITIONS IN SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
Department of Philosophy, University of Nijmegen
Closing date: October 5, 2009
These positions are part of a four-year research programme entitled "Quantity matters", which is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The project leader is Bart Geurts. The principal aim of the programme is to develop a comprehensive theory of quantity implicatures. Although the project's central objective is theoretical in nature, it has a significant empirical component as well, involving a range of experimental studies on quantity implicatures that will provide us with a broader and more solid database than is currently available.
For more information on the programme, go here.
REQUIREMENTS
Candidates should have a background in semantics and pragmatics, and preferably have at least some experience with experimental methods.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Doctoral positions (vacancy number 26.03.09):
- Maximum employment: 1,0 fte
- Maximum salary per month, based on fulltime employment: € 2,612 gross/month
- Duration of the contract: January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2013
Post-doctoral position (vacancy number 26.02.09):
- Maximum employment: 1,0 fte
- Maximum salary per month, based on fulltime employment: € 4,374 gross/month
- Salary scale: 11
- Duration of the contract: January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2011
FURTHER INFORMATION
Bart Geurts
- Telephone: +31 24 361 6217
- E-mail: bart.geurts@phil.ru.nl
APPLICATIONS
Applications should refer to the appropriate vacancy number and include a curriculum vitae, contact information for at least two referees, and a cover letter describing research interests. Applications must be sent before October 5, 2009 to: vacatures@dpo.ru.nl
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September 11, 2009
EURO-XPRAG DEADLINE APPROACHING
The deadline for travel grants for the EURO-XPRAG program is 15 September. Go here more information.
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September 2, 2009
4 Doctoral Positions, Mainz Germany
The graduate group "Pragmatic enrichment: Theoretical and experimental approaches" offers 4 doctoral positions. For more information, click here.
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July 3, 2009
EURO-XPRAG: CALL FOR PROPOSALS
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN EXPERIMENTAL PRAGMATICS
TRAVEL GRANTS FOR SHORT VISITS
Research in experimental pragmatics generates data as it tests between theories of pragmatics. After having seen accelerated growth over the last ten years, experimental pragmatics is now in a better position to resolve theoretical disputes, to advance beyond armchair theory-making and to make pragmatic theories more accessible to the cognitive science community at large. As part of an effort to provide a more permanent platform, a Research Network Program known as EURO-XPRAG supported by the ESF is now kicking off through a call for proposals that will support collaborative research.
Proposals that are accepted will bring together teams of at least two researchers to conduct collaborative research in experimental pragmatics. Accepted projects will be reimbursed for travel expenses up to EUR 4000 distributed over a two year period starting October 15th, 2009. The travel expenses must be distributed over two or three short trips, with the first trip taking place in 2009 (see note a in "Further details" at euro-xprag.org).
In addition, successful applicants will be invited to present their projects at a workshop to be held at the University of Leuven, Belgium, on June 10-12, 2010. The workshop's objectives will be to provide feedback on the experimental paradigms and their testing of semantic and pragmatic theory.
Given that the goal of Experimental Pragmatics is to bring together opposing theories around the investigation of specific phenomena, EURO-XPRAG will privilege proposals built around Adversarial Collaborations. Ideally, these consist of a group containing two researchers with opposing points of view on a specific topic and an arbiter. The members of the collaboration would aim to work out in detail specific opposing predictions within an experimental paradigm and ultimately to test those predictions. This has been practiced among cognitive scientists in the past (see Mellers, Hertwig and Kahneman, 2001 for a detailed illustration) and requires a strong arbiter to mount a mutually agreed experiment. See Mellers, Hertwig & Kahnemann, (2001)1, and especially Table 1 (at the website euro-xprag.org) on creating an Adversarial Collaboration.
The potential themes to be covered include, but are not limited to, presupposition, referential terms, metaphor and figurative uses, implicatures, acquisition and development of pragmatics, and lexical pragmatics. Proposals will be evaluated for their overall quality and for the added value they bring to Experimental Pragmatics. Funds are limited to travel expenses linked to the collaboration (i.e. they are not designed for costs related to experimental procedures, which can be covered by other sources or by the host institutions).
For further details, go to http://www.euro-xprag.org/
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