Call for papers

Linguists, logicians, philosophers, psychologists, and interested researchers from other areas are cordially invited to join the 18th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics to be held on the top of the Szrenica mountain in the Giant Mountains on the border of Poland and the Czech Republic on March 3-6, 2017.

The main themes of this year’s convention are “The role of context and reasoning in communication” and "Logic and natural data". 

This year's invited speakers are:

·     Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

·      Katja Jasinskaja (University of Cologne)

·      Salvador Mascarenhas (ENS Paris)

·      Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)

We invite submission of blind abstracts of no longer than 250 words in PDF, to be sent to szklarskaworkshop18@gmail.com by December 10, 2016.

We especially invite submissions related to the topics above but also welcome contributions relevant to any of the more classical subjects of this workshop series. Experimental as well as theoretical approaches are welcome. We in particular encourage the presentation of innovative ideas, even if still in need of later refinement.

More traditional Szklarska Poręba themes include:

·    Coordination on meaning

·    Inference in natural language

·    Experimental semantics and pragmatics

·    Bayesian models of interpretation

·    Quantum cognition and language

·    Grammaticalisation and other approaches to diachrony

·    Language typology and semantics/pragmatics

·    Game theoretical pragmatics

·    Formal models of language acquisition

·    Explicature and implicature

·    The architecture of the syntax/semantics interface

·    Licensing of polarity elements, quantification, etc.

·    The evolution of communication and language

·    Optimality theory