19-21 October 2007
Mainz, Germany
Call for Papers: International Conference on Quotation and Meaning (ICQM) Date: 19-Oct-2007 ~V 21-Oct-2007 Location: Johannes Gutenberg - University Mainz, Germany Local Organisation: Elke Brendel, Jrg Meibauer, Markus Steinbach (Johannes Gutenberg - University Mainz) Contact Person: Markus Steinbach E-mail: steinbac@uni-mainz.de Call deadline: 15-June-2007 Quotation is a sort of metarepresentation that is found in all natural languages. Linguistic research has made clear that in quotation, there are complex syntactic, morphological and graphematic mechanisms at work. In philosophy of language, there are long-standing debates on quotation and paradoxes, on the use-mention distinction, and the meaning of quotation marks and quotation expressions. More recently, quotation has become a topic within the debate on the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Since the aim of the conference is to bring together philosophers and linguists, we call for papers on all aspects of the conference topic, which will be anonymously reviewed by a reading committee. Submissions: Contributions to the above mentioned subjects are welcome. Authors should submit an abstract of at most 500 words, 12 font size, in PDF format (for talks with a duration of 30~R plus 10~R discussion) via e-mail to steinbac@uni-mainz.de Invited Speakers: Bart Geurts (Radboud University Nijmegen) Manuel Garca-Carpintero (University of Barcelona) Paul Saka (University of Houston, Texas) IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: June 15th, 2007 Notification: July 1st, 2007