LINGUIST List 9.944

Wed Jun 24 1998

Confs: Relevance Theory Workshop

Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill <brettlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Steve Nicolle, Relevance Theory Workshop: provisional schedule

Here is the *provisional* programme for the forthcoming Relevance
Theory Workshop. A registration form is included at the end of the
programme (reduced rate for registration before 1 July). Hard copies
of the registration form can be obtained from Vlad Zegarac at the
address below. On registration, participants will receive abstracts
of the papers together with travel information. (Steve Nicolle)

RELEVANCE THEORY WORKSHOP - PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Tuesday 8 Sept
11.00		Registration begins (set up posters)
1.00		Lunch

2.15-4.00	 Panel on Conceptual and Procedural Encoding
 Jaqcues Moeschler (Anne Reboul) - Directional Inferences and the
 Conceptual/Procedural Encoding Distinction
 Tomoko Matsui - Implicature, explicature, higher-level explicature
 and procedural constraints: Japanese connectives DAKARA and
 SOREDE
 Thorstein Fretheim - Are there at least two at least'?

4.30-4.50	Corinne Iten - Procedural Meaning: the cases of 'although'
 and 'but'
4.50-5.30	Invited talk: Diane Blakemore - Procedural Meaning:
 'nevertheless', 'yet' and 'but' (again)
5.35-6.00	Discussion

6.15-7.00	Invited talk: Robyn Carston - Truth-Conditional Semantics
 and What is Communicated

8.15		Keynote speech: Deirdre Wilson

Wed 9 September
(at University of Luton Conference Centre, Putteridge Berry)

 9.30-11.15	Panel on Non-truth Conditional Meaning
 Reiko Itani - On sentence particle NE
 Joo Peres/Rui Marques - Narrowing and structuring the domain
 of conversational implicature
 Cassandre Cresswell - Non-argument reflexives in English:
 a pragmatic analysis

11.45-12.55	Panel on Reference
 Anne Reboul - A relevance theoretic approach to reference
 George Powell - The deferred use of proper names

2.00-2.45 Vicky Escandell-Vidal - Metapropositons as
 metarepresentations

3.00-4.45	Panel on Relevance Theory and Literature
 Ian MacKenzie - Relevance and deconstruction
 John Constable - Metre as an engine of unstructured implication
 Christoph Unger - On the influence of genre on the deduction of
 implicatures

5.15-6.25	Panel on Relevance Theory and Philosophy
 Lszl Tarnay - How to Kleiber a Sperber-Wilson?
 Tams Plya - On rationality and relevance

7.45-9.30	Panel on Reformulations of Relevance Theory
 Richard Breheny - Reformulations in Relevance Theory and stronger
 meaning
 Ernst-August Gutt - Relevance and effort: a paper for discussion
 Milena Nuti - The Cary-Anne situation

Thurs 10 Sept - a.m.
 9.00-10.00	Panel on Non-truth Conditional Meaning
 Anna Papafragou - The comprehension of indirect requests:
 pragmatic and developmental perspectives
 Nathalie Franken - Speech Acts in Relevance Theory: a critical
 assessment

10.20-11.00 Peter Grundy - Explicature, implicature and cultural
 affiliation

11.00-1.30 Papers on Applications of relevance Theory
 Robin Setton - Relevance Theory and simultaneous
 conference interpretation
 Alex Klinge - Context construction and conventionalisation
 Guylaine Gonel/Bernard Levrat - Taking relevance into account in
 question-answering systems: an approach of Relevance
 Theory modelling

followed by LAGB workshop on experimental pragmatics.


 REGISTRATION FORM

IF YOU WISH TO REGISTER, PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM AND SEND IT BACK
WITH (EVIDENCE OF) YOUR PAYMENT TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:

Vlad Zegarac
Dept. of Linguistics
University of Luton
Faculty of Humanities
75 Castle Street
Luton
Bedfordshire LU1 3AJ
UNITED KINGDOM


NAME:_________________________________________


ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE:

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

e-mail address: _____________________________________


I would like to register for:
(please circle A or B)

A---------- the whole conference package

B---------- the conference fee + the options as indicated
below (please put a tick on the line next to your chosen options)

The "package" price: stlg95 (if sent to arrive by the end of June 1998)
This includes:

Conference fee (obligatory) stlg20
____________________________________________
Options (included in the package):

Lunch (8th Sept.) stlg7,50___
Dinner (8th Sept.) stlg7.50___
Accommodation (inc. breakfast) (8/9 Sept.) stlg20_____
Lunch (9th Sept.) stlg10_____
Dinner (9th Sept.) stlg10_____
Accommodation (inc. breakfast) (9/10 Sept) stlg20_____
_________________________________________________________

Extra options (not included in the package):

Accommodation (inc. breakfast) (7/8 Sept.) stlg20_____
Accommodation (inc. breakfast) (10/11 Sept.)stlg20_____
Lunch (10 Sept.) stlg7,50__


FOR PAYMENTS MADE AFTER THE END OF JUNE 1998
ADD AN EXTRA stlg5

METHODS OF PAYMENT:

Return a hard copy of this form and

EITHER:

1. enclose a cheque (made payable to UNIVERSITY OF
 LUTON)

OR

2. complete and sign the following instruction:

Please debit stlg______ from my VISA / MASTERCARD number

__________________________________ valid until __________


Name in print:_______________________________

Signature:___________________________________

OR

3. pay by direct bank transfer to the UNIVERSITY OF LUTON,
Midland Bank Plc., George Street, Luton, Beds, United Kingdom
Account number: 81276360
Sort code: 40 - 30 - 32
(please encolse a bank receipt)