LINGUIST List 14.2796

Thu Oct 16 2003

Calls: Semantics/Germany; Sociolinguistics/Iceland

Editor for this issue: Steve Moran <stevelinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. benz, Games and Decisions in Pragmatics
2. wise_linguist, Language Policy and Standardization

Games and Decisions in Pragmatics 
Short Title: GDP

Date: 24-OCT-03 - 25-OCT-03
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact: Anton Benz
Contact Email: benzzas.gwz-berlin.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.anton-benz.de/gdp/gdp.html

Linguistic Sub-field: Semantics, Pragmatics

Call Deadline: 01-SEP-03

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims at discussing possibilities and limits of game and
decision theory in linguistics. Game and Decision Theory (GDT) are
widely used frameworks for modelling rational interacting agents. They
are natural candidates if we look for a foundation of linguistic
pragmatics. Recently there has been some progress in applying game and
decision theory to problems related e.g. to bidirectional optimality
theory (OT), Griceian pragmatics and extensions of dynamic semantics
(questions, presuppositions). This conference offers an opportunity
for discussing possibilities and limits of game and decision theory in
linguistics.

If you intend to participate, please send an e-mail in advance to the
organisers.

Speakers:

Nicholas Allott: Game theory, communication and radical pragmatics

Nicholas Asher: tba 

Anton Benz: Learning, Partial Blocking, and the Optimisation of
Language Use

Gerhard Jaeger: The Evolution of Weak Bidirectional OT

Roger Kibble: Trust and Discourse Structure in a Communication Game

Prashant Parikh: Speaker Meaning and Conversational Implicatures

Robert van Rooy: Costly Signalling and conventional meaning: Punishing
Deception and Rewarding Underspecification

Madison Williams: Focal Point Based Equilibrium Selection and the Horn
Strategies

Program: http://www.anton-benz.de/gdp/programme.html

Organization:

Hosted by the ZAS Berlin

Organised by Anton Benz and the Optimality Theory Project at ZAS
Contact: benzzas.gwz-berlin.de

Language Policy and Standardization 
Date: 04-OCT-03 - 04-OCT-03
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Contact: Ari P�ll Kristinsson
Contact Email: aripkismal.hi.is 
Meeting URL: http://www.ismal.hi.is/Radstefna2003ENS.html

Linguistic Sub-field: Sociolinguistics 
Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2004

Meeting Description:

Conference on Language Policy and Standardization, Reykjavik, 4 Oct
2003. Arranged by The Icelandic Language Council. Among invited
speakers: Ulrich Ammon, Deborah Cameron and Lars Vik�r.

Language Planning and Language Management in Algeria: a
Sociolinguistic Approach