LINGUIST List 21.2851 Thu Jul 08 2010 Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Germany Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Katja Jasinskaja, Implicatures and Discourse Structure Message 1: Implicatures and Discourse Structure Date: 08-Jul-2010 From: Katja Jasinskaja <jasinskims.uni-stuttgart.de> Subject: Implicatures and Discourse Structure E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Implicatures and Discourse Structure Date: 23-Feb-2011 - 25-Feb-2011 Location: Göttingen, Germany Contact Person: Fabienne Salfner Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_diskursstruktur.html Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics Call Deadline: 20-Jul-2010 Meeting Description: Workshop on Implicatures and Discourse Structure Organizers: Anton Benz, Katja Jasinskaja, Fabienne Salfner Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held in Göttingen, Germany, February 23-25, 2011 Human communication is characterized by the ability to convey more information than uttered just by words. There are two major theoretical frameworks that approach this matter from different perspectives: one is the theory of rhetorical relations that characterizes the macro-structure of discourse. This approach derives the additional content from the kind of connection between discourse segments. The other approach is the theory of conversational implicatures, which usually considers a single speech act and derives the additional content from the assumption that the communication participants observe the conversational maxims. The workshop will provide a platform to discuss the interplay of these two aspects of pragmatic inference: discourse structure and implicatures. Keynote speakers: Bart Geurts Nicholas Asher Programme committee: Nicholas Asher Maria Averintseva-Klisch Anton Benz Christian Chiarcos Michael Franke Bart Geurts Gerhard Jäger Katja Jasinskaja Elena Karagjosova Edgar Onea Janina Radó Robert van Rooij Uli Sauerland Fabienne Salfner Barbara Schmiedtova Katrin Schulz Maria Spychalska Carla Umbach Kazuko Yatsushiro Henk Zeevat Second Call for Papers We invite talks related (but not limited) to one of the following topics: - The identification of discourse parameters (discourse relations, topic structure, gestures etc.) which affect or are affected by the derivation of implicatures; - Experimental or corpus-based studies on the interaction of discourse structure and implicatures; - Discourse dependency of generalized vs. particularized implicatures; - Theoretical models of the interaction of implicatures and discourse. The studies can be embedded in any theoretical framework including: - (S)DRT - question-based models - game theory - optimality theory - relevance theory or not represent any specific framework. Abstracts: Please submit anonymous abstracts of 2 pages including examples and references in the PDF format via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ag4dgfs2011 The abstracts should include a title, the research question, an indication of the theoretical framework and/or empirical methodology and a brief summary of the results. Accepted papers will be allotted 30 min. including discussion. The languages of the conference are English and German. Important dates: July 20, 2010: Abstract submission deadline September 1, 2010: Notification of acceptance December 1, 2010: Final abstracts for the conference proceedings February 23-25, 2011: Workshop Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.