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LINGUIST List 23.3100

Wed Jul 18 2012

Confs: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org>

Date: 18-Jul-2012
From: Emar Maier <emar.maiergmail.com>
Subject: Quotation: Perspectives from Philosophy & Linguistics
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Quotation: Perspectives from Philosophy & Linguistics

Date: 27-Sep-2012 - 29-Sep-2012
Location: Bochum, Germany
Contact: Emar Maier
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/quotation.html

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax

Meeting Description:

Quotation: Perspectives from Philosophy & Linguistics
Bochum, September 27-29, 2012
Organization: Emar Maier & Markus Werning
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/quotation.html

There are many varieties of quotation in natural language, ranging from pure quotation (‘cat’ has three letters) and direct quotation (‘That’s ridiculous,’ said Mary) to indirect discourse (Mary said that that was ridiculous), and including also less well studied phenomena like scare quotes, free indirect discourse, and role shift in sign language.

Where philosophers have been fascinated with the self-referential aspects of pure and direct quotation, linguists have been focusing primarily on indirect reports. Over the past 10-15 years the two traditions have joined forces to study (i) various forms of perspective shifting in indirect discourse (cf. Schlenker 2003), and (ii) the ubiquitous phenomenon of ‘mixed quotation’ (Mary said that that’s ‘ridiculous’, cf. Cappelen & Lepore 1997). It is becoming increasingly clear that quotation challenges fundamental assumptions about (i) the semantics-pragmatics interface (Potts 2007); (ii) the use-mention/direct-indirect dichotomies (Maier 2009); (iii) the nature of indexicality and context shift (Recanati 2000); and (iv) compositionality (Werning 2005). It is issues like these that will be the topic of our workshop. In order to move the discussion forward, we aim at a truly interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, bringing together interested philosophers and linguists from a variety of subdisciplines.

Invited Speakers:

- Regine Eckardt
- Dan Everett
- Stefano Predelli
- Francois Recanati
- Josep Quer
- Chung-chieh Shan
- Mark de Vries
- Dag Westerstahl

Contributed Talks:

- Philippe de Brabanter
- Hans-Martin Gärtner & Beáta Gyuris
- Jonathan Ginzburg & Robin Cooper
- Cosmina Maria Hodoroaga
- Annika Hübl & Markus Steinbach
- Elsi Kaiser & Alexa Cohen
- Manfred Kupffer
- Friederike Moltmann
- Oleg Prosorov
- Eva-Maria Remberger

Posters (+ 5 minute presentations):

- Zachary Abrahams
- Gemma Celestino
- Kate Judge
- Rainer Ludwig
- Sumiyo Nishiguchi
- Hazel Pearson
- Mihaela Popa
- Brian Rabern

Full Program & Registration:

http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/quotation/


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