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CfP special issue of Topoi on "Presuppositions: Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology", Deadline: 15 May 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

TOPOI special issue ?Presuppositions: Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology?

Submission open from June 2013

The primary purpose of this special issue of Topoi
(http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245) is to provide an updated survey of
 the
different competing perspectives on the theme of presuppositions in Philosophy of Language and
Linguistics. A further aim of the collection 
is to encourage contributions in the area of
Experimental Pragmatics. Topics include but are not limited to the following:

- Presuppositions and context
- Presupposition triggers
- Informative presupposition
- Presupposition accommodation
- The presupposition projection problem
- Presuppositions in Dynamic Semantics
- The presupposition/implicature distinction
- Presuppositions and attitudes

INVITED CONTRIBUTORS: Barbara Abbott (Michigan State University), Christopher Gauker
(University of Cincinnati), Josep Macia (University of Barcelona), Benjamin Spector (Ecole Normale
Sup?rieure), Michele Prandi (University of Genoa), Jacopo Romoli (University of Ulster).

Contributions should be original and not submitted elsewhere. Papers will be submitted to blind
peer-reviewing.

DEADLINE: May 15, 2014

LANGUAGE: English

WORD LIMITS: up to 60.000 characters, spaces and references included

FORMATTING: Formatting instructions can be found at
http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Submissions for this special issue should be made through Topoi
Editorial Manager (http://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/), selecting ?S.I. Presuppositions
(Domaneschi)? as Article Type

EDITOR: Filippo Domaneschi (University of Genoa)

For any queries please contact the Editor: filippo.domaneschi@unige.it