LINGUIST List 22.2117 Wed May 18 2011 Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics, Philosophy of Language/Germany Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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 , Theoretical Pragmatics 2011 Message 1: Theoretical Pragmatics 2011 Date: 17-May-2011 From: Katja Jasinskaja <katja.jasinskajagmail.com> Subject: Theoretical Pragmatics 2011 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Theoretical Pragmatics 2011 Short Title: TPrag 2011 Date: 13-Oct-2011 - 15-Oct-2011 Location: Berlin, Germany Contact Person: Katja Jasinskaja Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_tprag.html Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2011 Meeting Description: The last decade witnessed a surge of new research in pragmatics and several new theoretical frameworks emerged: different variants of game theoretic and optimality theoretic approaches, non-Gricean approaches to implicatures, and multi-dimensional approaches to meaning. At the same time, research in other frameworks such as Neo-Gricean pragmatics, speech act-theory, theories of vagueness and presupposition theory has progressed rapidly as well. In many areas, an influx of researchers with training in formal semantics has brought formal precision to pragmatic theories. This has led to new empirical predictions, but also sometimes shifted or blurred the semantics-pragmatics boundary. After a decade of diversification, it is time to bring the different approaches together and compare their results and methodologies. It is the aim of this conference to provide a forum for research on theoretical pragmatics. Pragmatics is understood in a wide sense, including not only classical topics like Gricean pragmatics, speech act and presupposition theory, but also e.g. theoretical models of socio-linguistics, language evolution, and language change. In order to foster the interaction between experimental and theoretical approaches, we explicitly encourage presentations of theoretical models which have a basis in experimental studies, or allow for experimentally testable predictions. Invited Speakers: Richard Breheny, University College London Michael Franke, University of Tübingen Lotte Hogeweg, Radboud University Nijmegen Prashant Parikh, Univeristy of Pennsylvania Mandy Simons, Carnegie Mellon University Brian Skyrms, University of California - Irvine Benjamin Spector, École Normale Supérieure, Paris Jason Stanley, Rutgers University - New Brunswick Organization: Anton Benz (ZAS, Berlin) Katja Jasinskaja (ZAS, Berlin) Uli Sauerland (ZAS, Berlin) The conference is organized and sponsored by the ZAS programme area 6 'Interfaces between sentence semantics and discourse strategies', the DfG project 'Implicatures and Discourse Structure' (IDis), and the Emmy-Noether research group 'Interpretation of Quantifiers'. 2nd Call for Papers: Abstracts should be strictly anonymous and should not exceed 2 single-column pages including literature. Abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format via Easychair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tprag2011. The number of submissions is limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract or 2 joint abstracts per author. Abstracts will be evaluated through peer reviewing. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is June 15, 2011. Authors will be notified by August 1, 2011. We plan to publish a selection of papers as a special issue of a journal. Reviewing Board: Anton Benz Reinhard Blutner Richard Breheny Michael Franke Bart Geurts Alison Hall Lotte Hogeweg Katja Jasinskaja Manfred Krifka Prashant Parikh Uli Sauerland Mandy Simons Brian Skyrms Stephanie Solt Benjamin Spector Jason Stanley Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2011 Conference: October 13-15, 2011 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-May-2011       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.