Keynote Speakers* Kent Bach, San Francisco State
University, USA
* François Recanati,
Institut Nicod/CNRS, France
* Emma Borg, University of
Reading, UK
* Isidora Stojanovic, Institut
Nicod/CNRS, France
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It has often been claimed that
when somebody utters a sentence like
‘The paper cup is hot, but you can drink it’ the utterance expresses
more than what is said literally. However, there is less agreement
about the status of this additional content and to which linguistic
level it belongs. Contextualists have argued that a radical departure
from the traditional view is needed and that truth-conditional
semantics should be replaced by truth-conditional pragmatics. In
contrast to this, minimalists have claimed that the traditional
distinction between semantics and pragmatics should be maintained.
Instead of putting more burden onto pragmatics, some authors have also
suggested to split up the locutionary level into various independent
levels of semantic content.
The purpose of this two-day
conference is to bring together researchers
working on issues of the semantics-pragmatics interface and give them
an opportunity to discuss and perhaps re-evaluate key notions such as
implicitures, explicatures, the semantics vs. pragmatics distinction
and the role of context at the level of what is said.
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Conference Program
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