11-15 March 2011
Szklarska Poreba, Poland
Call for Papers 11th Szklarska Poreba Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics "Ambiguity in Language and the Process of Disambiguation" 11.03.-15.03.2010 Description: Linguists, logicians and philosophers are invited to join the twelfth conference *on the Roots of Pragmasemantics*. The focus of this year's convention is "ambiguity in language and the process of disambiguation". Thus, we are interested particularly in how interpretation of ambiguous sentences is determined and hence how efficiently communication is obtained. Experimental as well as theoretical approaches to the problem are welcome. We especially invite submissions related to this topic, but also welcome contributions relevant to any of the more classical subjects of this workshop series. We in particular encourage the presentation of innovative ideas, even if still in need of later refinement. We invite submission of *blind *abstracts of no longer than 500 words in PDF, to be sent to m.spychalska@gmail.com. Especially relevant topics include: * Lexical & syntactical ambiguity * Cognitive aspects of disambiguation in language * Language comprehension and language production * The role of disambiguation in reasoning * Experimental studies on ambiguity and disambiguation in language Invited Speakers: Justyna Grudzi?ska (confirmed) Katrin Schulz (confirmed) Jacques Jayez (confirmed) Bernhard Schröder (confirmed) Deadline for submissions: Monday, 17. 01.2011 Notification of acceptance: 07.02.2011 Workshop: March 11th to 15th. Location: Szklarska Por?ba, Poland Organizers: Maria Spychalska (chair, program, accommodation) Reinhard Blutner (webmaster) http://www.blutner.de/ Henk Zeevat (program, finances) http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/h.w.zeevat/ Anton Benz (program, coordination) http://www.anton-benz.de/ Sophia Katrenko (program) Anna Chernilovskaya (program) For further details check the webpage: http://szklarska2011.hlotze.com/ Apologies for multiple copies; please forward to everyone that may be interested.