LINGUIST List 15.558

Thu Feb 12 2004

Calls: General Ling/France; Phonology/Greece

Editor for this issue: Andrea Berez <andrealinguistlist.org>

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1. Bart Guerts bart.geurts, Implicature and Conversational Meaning
2. Carlos Gussenhoven c.gussenhoven, International Conference on Tone and Intonation

Implicature and Conversational Meaning
Date: 16-Aug-2004 - 20-Aug-2004

Nancy, France

Contact Name: Bart Guerts
Contact email: bart.geurtsphil.kun.nl
Conference URL: http://www.phil.kun.nl/implicatures

Linguistic Subfield: General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 05-Mar-2004


Meeting Description: 
The central notion that dominated linguistic pragmatics since the
early seventies is Grice's notion of conversational implicature. It
is based on the insight that, by means of general principles of
rational communication, we may convey more with the use of a sentence
than just its conventional meaning. What is actually conveyed depends
on the utterance situation, the linguistic context, and the goals and
preferences of the interlocutors. Hence, what is actually meant may
deviate in various ways from what is literally said. Over the last few
years there is a renewed interest in Gricean pragmatics from different
theoretical perspectives. This comprises work in a dynamic framework,
non-monotonic reasoning, and optimality and game theoretic
approaches. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD
students and researchers to present and discuss their work with
colleagues and researchers who work in the broad subject areas
represented at ESSLLI.

Call for Papers:

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Implicature and conversational meaning

http://www.phil.kun.nl/implicatures

16-20 August, Nancy

organised as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and
Information ESSLLI 2004 (http://esslli2004.loria.fr/) 9-20 August,
2004 in Nancy

Workshop Organizers:
Bart Geurts (bart.geurtsphil.kun.nl)
Rob van der Sandt (robphil.kun.nl)

Workshop Purpose:
The central notion that dominated linguistic pragmatics since the
early seventies is Grice's notion of conversational implicature. It
is based on the insight that, by means of general principles of
rational communication, we may convey more with the use of a sentence
than just its conventional meaning. What is actually conveyed depends
on the utterance situation, the linguistic context, and the goals and
preferences of the interlocutors. Hence, what is actually meant may
deviate in various ways from what is literally said. Over the last few
years there is a renewed interest in Gricean pragmatics from different
theoretical perspectives. This comprises work in a dynamic framework,
non-monotonic reasoning, and optimality and game theoretic
approaches. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD
students and researchers to present and discuss their work with
colleagues and researchers who work in the broad subject areas
represented at ESSLLI.

Submission details: Authors are invited to submit a 2-page abstract
before March 5, 2004. The following formats are accepted: pdf, (plain)
latex, and rtf. Please send your submission electronically to:
bart.geurtsphil.kun.nl

Submissions will be reviewed by the workshopcommittee, which consists
of Reinhard Blutner (Amsterdam), Gennaro Chierchia (Milan), Larry Horn
(Yale), Francois Recanati (Paris), and the organisers.

Local Arrangements:
All workshop participants are required to register for ESSLLI. The
registration fee for authors presenting a paper will be the same as
the early student/workshop speaker registration fee.

Important Dates:
	Submissions: March 5, 2004
	Notification: April 19, 2004
	ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2004
	Preliminary programme: April 23, 2004
	Final programme: June 25, 2004
	Workshop: August 16-20, 2004

International Conference on Tone and Intonation

9-Sep-2004 - 11-Sep-2004
Massaria, Santorini, Greece

Contact name: Carlos Gussenhoven
Contact email: tieconferencelet.kun.nl
Conference URL: http://www.let.kun.nl/tie

Linguistic Subfield: Phonology

Call Deadline: 1-Mar-2004


Meeting Description:

The International Conference on Tone and Intonation will be held at
the Santorini Image Hotel in Massaria (Santorini, Greece), 9-11
September 2004. The conference is the closing event of a three-year
scientific exchange programme funded by the European Science
Foundation as the Network 'Tone and Intonation in Europe' (TIE). The
aim of the network has been to stimulate and coordinate research on
the prosody of European languages and language varieties, with special
emphasis on languages that feature lexical tone. The workshops have
been devoted to tonogenesis, experimental procedures, and typology,
and have attempted to embed the discussion of the European languages
in a global typological perspective.

The conference intends to close off the Network programme in the same
spirit, and will thus include contributions dealing with European as
well as non-European languages. While there will be a preference for
papers on the interaction between intonation and lexical tone,
typologically, historically and psycholinguistically oriented work,
including brain imaging research, on either tone or intonation is
welcomed.

Second call for abstracts and registration announcement

International Conference on Tone and Intonation
Santorini (Greece), 9-11 September 2004 
ESF Network Tone and Intonation in Europe
 
Abstracts are invited for the International Conference on Tone and
Intonation, to be held at the Santorini Image Hotel in Massaria
(Santorini, Greece), 9-11 September 2004. The conference is the
closing event of a three-year scientific exchange programme funded by
the European Science Foundation as the Network E). The aim of the
network has been to stimulate and coordinate research on the prosody
of European languages and language varieties, with special emphasis on
languages that feature lexical tone. The workshops have been devoted
to tonogenesis, experimental procedures, and typology, and have
attempted to embed the discussion of the European languages in a
global typological perspective.

The conference intends to close off the Network programme in the same
spirit, and will thus include contributions dealing with European as
well as non-European languages. While there will be a preference for
papers on the interaction between intonation and lexical tone,
typologically, historically and psycholinguistically oriented work,
including brain imaging research, on either tone or intonation is
welcomed.

Abstracts should have no more than 400 words, excluding
bibliographical references and illustrations, and not exceed two
pages. They should either be Word-files or pdf-files and be sent as
email attachments to tieconferencelet.kun.nl before 1 March 2004.
 
Registration. To register, go to
http://www.let.kun.nl/tie/defooltcon.htm and download the registration
form.

Invited speakers: G Harry van der Hulst (UConn), Larry Hyman
(Berkeley), Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA), Shigeki Kaji (Tokyo U Foreign Studies),
John Kingston (UMass), Bob Ladd (Edinburgh), David Odden (Ohio), Lisa
Selkirk (UMass), Hubert Truckenbrodt (T

Network coordinators: Amalia Arvaniti (UC San Diego), Gorka Elordieta
(Basque Country), S), Aditi Lahiri (Constance), Tomas Riad
(Stockholm), Norval Smith (Amsterdam)