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Workshop 'Implicature & Conversational Meaning', Nancy (France) August 2004

CALL FOR PAPERS

                        Implicature and conversational meaning

                          http://www.phil.kun.nl/implicatures

                                 16-20 August, Nancy

organised as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and
Information ESSLLI 2004 (http://esslli2004.loria.fr/) 9-20 August, 2004 in
Nancy

Workshop Organizers:
Bart Geurts (bart.geurts@phil.kun.nl)
Rob van der Sandt (rob@phil.kun.nl)

Workshop Purpose: The central notion that dominated linguistic pragmatics
since the early seventies is Grice's notion of conversational implicature.  
It is based on the insight that, by means of general principles of
rational communication, we may convey more with the use of a sentence than
just its conventional meaning. What is actually conveyed depends on the
utterance situation, the linguistic context, and the goals and preferences
of the interlocutors.  Hence, what is actually meant may deviate in
various ways from what is literally said. Over the last few years there is
a renewed interest in Gricean pragmatics from different theoretical
perspectives.  This comprises work in a dynamic framework, non-monotonic
reasoning, and optimality and game theoretic approaches. The workshop aims
to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present
and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers who work in the
broad subject areas represented at ESSLLI.

Submission details: Authors are invited to submit a 2-page abstract before
March 5, 2004. The following formats are accepted: pdf, (plain) latex, and
rtf. Please send your submission electronically to:
bart.geurts@phil.kun.nl

Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee, which
consists of Reinhard Blutner (Amsterdam), Gennaro Chierchia (Milan), Larry
Horn (Yale), Francois Recanati (Paris), and the organisers.


Local Arrangements: All workshop participants are required to register for
ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will be the
same as the early student/workshop speaker registration fee.