Workshop
Experiments on the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
(XPRAG FEST 2025)
Call for papers
Experiments on the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
(XPRAG FEST 2025)
Organizers: Nicole Gotzner, Morwenna Hoeks, Elli Tourtouri, Charlotte Uhlemann
Workshop dates: 17th-19th July 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 1st December 2024
Venue: Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin
Invited speakers:
Nadine Bade (Potsdam)
Anton Benz (ZAS)
Louise McNally (UPF)
Ira Noveck (CNRS)
Jacopo Romoli (HHU)
Uli Sauerland (ZAS)
Gregory Scontras (UCI)
Stephanie Solt (ZAS)
Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam)
We invite submissions to a workshop on experimental research investigating semantic and pragmatic meaning to be held at the Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics in Berlin (17th-19th July). The workshop is connected to the Emmy Noether project on ‘Scales in language processing and acquisition: Semantic and pragmatic contributions to implicature computation’ awarded to Nicole Gotzner (https://sites.google.com/view/nicolegotzner/emmy-noether-project).
Topics of particular relevance to the workshop include theory-guided experimental work on degrees, scales, adjective meaning, alternatives, subjectivity, pragmatic inferences and social meaning. Submissions should relate to one or more of the following research questions:
How should we model the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface?
How can we distinguish semantic from pragmatic content?
What role does semantic content play in pragmatic inferencing?
How do children acquire semantic and pragmatic meaning?
What mechanisms underly the computation of pragmatic inferences?
What is the relevance of scalar diversity?
How is social and pragmatic meaning linked?
How is valence and other emotional content represented?
Submission instructions:
Abstracts should be no longer than one page (Arial 11pt) with an additional page for figures, tables and references. Please submit your abstract to https://openreview.net/group?id=leibniz-zas.de/Leibniz-Centre_General_Linguistics/2025/Workshop/XPRAG-FEST. You will first need to create an author profile at open review. The deadline for submission is December 1st 2024.