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SPR 03 - Donostia-San Sebastian, Nov 2003

Second International Workshop on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Rhetoric
SPR 03
http://www.sc.ehu.es/ilwlaanj/SPR/SPR03.html

Donostia - San Sebastian, November 6-8, 2003

SPR-03 is organized by the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and
Information (ILCLI) of the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), and
supported by Kutxa Fundazioa, Eusko Jaurlaritza, and Ministerio de Ciencia
y Tecnologia. It will take place in the Faculty of Philosophy at Donostia
- San Sebastian.

TOPICS:

1. Argumentative Discourse: Pragmatics and Rhetoric.
2. Discourse Semantics: Explicit and Implicit Meanings.
3. New Trends in Formal Semantics of Natural Language.
4. History of Pragmatics: Austin and Grice.

LECTURES:

K. Korta (Donostia): Austin: Pragmatics and Philosophy
X. Laborda (Barcelona): Argumentation and oral genres. A communicative
approach
F. Moltmann (London): (Title not available)
S. Neale (Rutgers): Foundations of Linguistic Pragmatism
C. Plantin (Lyon): Emotions in Arguments
R. Thomason (Ann Arbor, Michigan): A Logicist Program for Lexical
Semantics
H. Zeevat (Amsterdam): Obligatory versus optional discourse marking

TUTORIALS:

T. Fernando (Dublin): Types and events in natural language semantics
I. Gomez (Donostia): Pragmatics of humour
F. van Eemeren (Amsterdam) & P. Houtlosser (Amsterdam): Dialectic and
rhetoric
G. Marti (Barcelona): Indexical and demonstrative reference