LINGUIST List 7.1758

Wed Dec 11 1996

Calls: Orthography, Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy

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1. Alexandra M. Jaffe, CFP: AAA panel on orthography
2. William J. Rapaport, Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy

CALL FOR PAPERS for 1997 AAA meetings to be held Nov. 19-23 in
Washington DC For a panel entitled: "Orthography and the Politics
of Representation"

Papers are sought that address social and political issues
surrounding orthography in the following two broad arenas:

1. The politics of orthographic choice in the representation of
"non-standard" languages/accents by outsiders (linguistic
anthropologists, novelists etc.). What are the representational
effects of choices about where/how to mark "difference"? In
particular, what are the rationales, advantages and disadvantages
of heavy orthographic marking of difference (even on words with
standard casual pronunciations like "cuz") vs. more selective
marking of already stereotyped locations of difference? Here,
discussion of intended audiences and purposes will be
significant. How are these choices (and the power and status
connotations attached to the various degrees of representational
difference) negotiated with the people being studied?

2. The politics of orthographic choice from within
minority/non-standard language communities in the context of
language planning and language standardization. What social and
power relations and meanings are seen to be embedded in
orthographic choice in general and in specific kinds of
orthographies? How are these related to dominant language
ideologies about the nature of language and the role of writing,
unification, purity etc.? What social and political
alignments/schisms are indexed by the issue of orthography?

Please write or e-mail

Alexandra Jaffe
Dept. of Anthropology/Sociology
University of Southern Mississippi
Box 5074
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
ajaffeocean.st.usm.edu

Harriet Ottenheimer
Department of Sociology/Anthropology and Social Work
Waters Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
mahafanksu.ksu.edu

2nd Announcement of the Wittgenstein Symposium 1997
Call for Papers

20th International Wittgenstein Symposium
10-16 August 1997
Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria

General Theme:
The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy

Sections:
1. Pragmatic Aspects of Applied Logic
2. The Pragmatic Dimension of Language
3. Pragmatic Problems in the Philosophy of Science
4. Pragmatic Approaches in Ethics and in the Theory of Action
5. Pragmatic Philosophers and Pragmatic Systems of Thought
6. Wittgenstein

Organizing Institution:
The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society
(Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria)

Organizing Committee:
Paul Weingartner, Gerhard Schurz and Georg Dorn
(Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Austria)

Invited Lectures will be given, among others, by:
Ernest W. ADAMS (Berkeley), Manfred BIERWISCH (Berlin),
Dieter BIRNBACHER (Duesseldorf), Jacques BOUVERESSE (Paris),
James CONANT (Pittsburgh), Luis FLORES (Santiago, Chile) ,
Peter GAERDENFORS (Lund), Ken GEMES (Yale),
Paul GOCHET (Li=E8ge), Hubert HAIDER (Salzburg),
Peter H. HARE (Buffalo), William L. HARPER (London, Ontario),
Risto HILPINEN (Miami), Richard C. JEFFREY (Princeton),
Hans KAMP (Stuttgart), Henrik KREUTZ (Erlangen-Nuremberg),
Theo KUIPERS (Groningen), Natalia KURTONINA (Gent),
=46ranz von KUTSCHERA (Regensburg), Georg MEGGLE (Leipzig),
Peter MITTELSTAEDT (Cologne), Edgar MORSCHER (Salzburg),
David PEARS (Oxford), John L. POLLOCK (Tucson),
Nicholas RESCHER (Pittsburgh), Eike von SAVIGNY (Bielefeld),
Evgenij SIDORENKO (Moscow), Brian SKYRMS (Irvine),
Patrick SUPPES (Stanford), Ryszard W=D3JCICKI (Warsaw).

If you want to participate, please contact by letter,
fax or phone call:
 The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society
 Congress Office
 Markt 63
 A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel
 Austria, Europe
 Telephone and Telefax: +43 2641 2557

A detailed registration form will then be sent to you. If you
return this with the indication that you would like to give a
paper, you will receive the guidelines for the submission of
papers (deadline: 30 April 1997). Papers will be
refereed. Accepted papers will be published before the start of
the symposium. Conference languages are English and German.
Please note: Contributions to section 6 need not pertain to
pragmatics or pragmatism; contributions to sections 1-5 need not
pertain to Wittgenstein. Up-to-date information on the next
Wittgenstein symposium is obtainable via internet. The
Wittgenstein '97 Home Page can be found at:
http://www.sbg.ac.at/phs/docs/wittgenstein97.htm

20th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium
KEY WORDS

General Topic: The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy
The contents of the sections are outlined by the following
key words (which are not meant to be exhaustive):

1. Pragmatic Aspects of Applied Logic
Key Words: formal pragmatics; pragmatics and possible worlds;
pragmatics, situations and propositional attitudes; logic and
relevance; nonmonotonic logic; uncertain, defeasible and
approximative reasoning; pragmatics in probabilistic reasoning;
application problems of logic in AI and in cognitive science;
pragmatical aspects of logic programming; computational
complexity and tractability; logical representation of belief and
belief revision;...

2. The Pragmatic Dimension of Language
Key Words: pragmatics and semantics; pragmatic aspects
of natural language representation in AI and in
cognitive science; pragmatics and ontology; pragmatic
and holistic theories of meaning; pragmatics and indexicals;
pragmatics and reference; pragmatics versus rigidity
of designators; pragmatic aspects of linguistic frameworks;
speech act theory; pragmatics in communication and discourse;...

3. Pragmatic Problems in the Philosophy of Science
Key Words: pragmatic aspects of scientific discovery and
scientific knowledge; pragmatics and the
instrumentalism-realism debate; evolutionary epistemology;
pragmatics in theory construction and evaluation;
pragmatics in induction and abduction; computational philosophy
of science; AI-models of learning and discovery in science;
pragmatics (vs. semantics) of explanation and causality;
pragmatics in the justification of scientific knowledge;
pragmatics of intended theory applications;
pragmatic aspects of theory dynamics and revision;
pragmatic components of the concept of paradigm;...

4. Pragmatic Approaches in Ethics and in the Theory of Action
Key Words: concepts of pragmatic and practical rationality;
pragmatic components in the theory of action;
pragmatics and intentionality; decision- and game-theory;
pragmatics and utilitarianism (including rule utilitarianism);
pragmatics in the balancing of goods; pragmatics versus
deontological ethics; pure versus applied ethics;
pragmatic aspects of justice; procedural ethics and
evolutionary ethics; pragmatics of ethical dialogue and
transcendental pragmatics;...

5. Pragmatic Philosophers and Pragmatic Systems of Thought
Key Words: Ch. S. Peirce, W. James, J. Dewey, C. I. Lewis,
H. Reichenbach, W.v.O. Quine, N. Rescher,...;
philosophical 'relatives' of pragmati(ci)sm, such as:
empiricism and (logical) positivism, conventionalism,
operationalism, holism, constructivism;
pragmatical standpoints in epistemology;
semantical versus pragmatical conception of truth;
pragmatics of knowledge; pragmatics of justification;...

6. Wittgenstein
Contributions to the Wittgenstein section are not restricted
to the general topic of the symposium. For this reason,
no key words are given for the Wittgenstein section.

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