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The last decade witnessed a surge of new research in pragmatics and several new theoretical frameworks emerged: different variants of game theoretic and optimality theoretic approaches, non-Gricean approaches to implicatures, and multi-dimensional approaches to meaning. At the same time, research in other frameworks such as Neo-Gricean pragmatics, speech act-theory, theories of vagueness and presupposition theory has progressed rapidly as well. In many areas, an influx of researchers with training in formal semantics has brought formal precision to pragmatic theories. This has led to new empirical predictions, but also sometimes shifted or blurred the semantics-pragmatics boundary. After a decade of diversification, it is time to bring the different approaches together and compare their results and methodologies.
It is the aim of this conference to provide a forum for research on theoretical pragmatics. Pragmatics is understood in a wide sense, including not only classical topics like Gricean pragmatics, speech act and presupposition theory, but also e.g. theoretical models of socio-linguistics, language evolution, and language change. In order to foster the interaction between experimental and theoretical approaches, we explicitly encourage presentations of theoretical models which have a basis in experimental studies, or allow for experimentally testable predictions.
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
10/13/2011 09:00 - 10/15/2011 16:00
Event venue:
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Schützenstr. 18
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Language / literature, Philosophy / ethics
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
09/23/2011
Sender/author:
Susanne Schroeder, Webredaktion
Department:
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event36890
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