July 17, 2008
Conference on the way
Another Experimental Pragmatics Conference is coming up and soon.
The 23-25th of April 2008 in Lyon.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Gerry Altmann
Richard Breheny
Peter Hobson
Boaz Keysar
Walter Schaeken
Julie Sedivy
Michael Tomasello
Kai von Fintel
Stay tuned for a call for papers.
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March 31, 2008
CFP: Utterance interpretation.
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
UICM2: Brussels Conference on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models II.
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March 13, 2008
Next XPRAG meeting
At the last meeting, it was agreed that the next biennial XPRAG conference would take place in Lyon and relatively early in the year (which gives us much less than 2 years). As of now, it looks like it is going to be April 23-26th 2009. Mark your calendars!
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November 29, 2007
Journal of Semantics, special issue
A special issue entitled "PROCESSING MEANING" from the Journal of Semantics has just come out. It is edited by Julie Sedivy, Robyn Carston, Ira Noveck & Bart Geurts. More information to be found at: http://jos.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl
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November 1, 2007
Experimental Pragmatics Conference coming up in December!
The next Experimental Pragmatics conference arrives in Berlin in December.
Organized by Uli Sauerland (ZAS, Berlin), Anton Benz (ZAS, Berlin), Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University and ZAS, Berlin), and Kazuko Yatsushiro (Humboldt University, Berlin), it promises be the source of exchanges and new data.
For more information: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/xprag/
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October 4, 2007
Call for papers
This came in from Nausicaa Pouscoulous. A call for papers for a special issue in the European Review of Philosophy.
The ability to assess the truth of an utterance, the validity of an inference or the reliability of a mental representation - including those inferred from observable behaviour - is a fundamental aspect of human cognition. "A is justified in thinking that p", "B is trustworthy when she says that q", "C is deceiving", are examples of evaluative representations typically involved in knowledge acquisition.
More below the fold.....
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July 30, 2007
CFP: experimental pragmatics/semantics workshops at DGfS
This is a call for papers for a workshop that's part of DGfS in Bamberg, Germany
Important dates are:
1 September 2007: abstract submission
15 September 2007: notification of acceptance
15 December 2007: provisional programme
27-29 February, 2008: conference
Billy
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CFP: Experimental Pragmatics 2007 in Berlin
Here's the call for papers for the experimental pragmatics workshop in Berlin in December.
Billy
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Call for Papers
Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2007
Experimental Pragmatics 2007 is a sequel to three very successful,
independently organized meetings in 2001 in Lyon, 2003 in Milan, and
2005 in Cambridge (UK). However, it differs from these meetings by
addressing more topics and connecting also to results in semantics.
The earlier successful meetings focused mostly on implicatures in
acquisition and polarity. The planned topics at this meeting are:
types, negation, implicatures and the semantics-pragmatics boundary.
The conference is planned around four three-hour sessions for each of
the four topics just mentioned. Each session will consist of two
invited one-hour lectures and a subsequent one-hour discussion on the
topic. The discussion will be introduced by an invited commentary of
between 20 and 30 minute length and then the discussion will be open
to all participants. In addition to the four thematic sessions, the
conference will feature a eight submitted presentations each 20 min
plus 10 min for discussion long, and a large number of poster
presentations. The submitted talks and poster presentations are
selected on the basis of a double-blind abstract evaluation process
involving the invited speakers. The reviewers take into account
scientific quality of the abstract (primary) and special interest for
the four themes of the conference (secondary).
Invited speakers by thematic session:
Evening lecture on language and cognition: Ted Gibson (MIT)
Types: Martin Hackl (Pomona), Liina Pylkkänen (NYU), comments: Bart
Geurts (Nijmegen)
Negation: Barbara Kaup (TU Berlin), Andrea Gualmini (Utrecht),
comments: Ira Noveck (ICS Lyon)
Implicatures: Napoleon Katsos (Cambridge), Julie Sedivy (Brown),
comments: Ted Gibson (MIT)
Semantics-pragmatics boundary: Reinhard Blutner (Amsterdam), tba.,
comments: Richard Breheny (UCL)
Important Dates:
August 31st, 2007 Abstract Submission Deadline
Abstracts should be one-page plus an additional page for examples,
graphs, tables, and references. We are using an electronic abstract
submission system. Please follow the instructions at
http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de
September 29th, 2007 Abstract review process complete
December 13th, 6 pm: Evening lecture by Ted Gibson (MIT) on language
and cognition location: Berlin, Germany, Schuetzenstr. 18, new
building of ZAS (near Checkpoint Charlie)
December 14-16th, 2007: Main Conference, 9 a.m. till 6:30 pm
location: Berlin, Germany, Unter den Linden 6, main building of
Humboldt University
Organizers: Uli Sauerland (ZAS, Berlin), Anton Benz (ZAS, Berlin),
Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University and ZAS, Berlin), Kazuko
Yatsushiro (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Conference Sponsors: German Research Council DFG (Main Conference
Sponsor); ZAS; Humboldt University; European Union FP6, project
CHLaSC (Evening Lecture on December 13th)
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May 21, 2007
Post-Doc announcement
Post-doc job advertisement at UCL...
Applications are invited for the position of post-doctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded project 'Experimental Investigations of Semantic-Pragmatic Inferences'. Based in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at University College London, you will carry out experimental research into on-line processes involved in deriving pragmatic implications in language comprehension. You will contribute to all aspects of the project, including data collection, linguistic analysis and dissemination of the results.
For more information, go to:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/jobs/postdocea.html
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