Latest Update: Aug 1st, 2008
Reading Group: Current Topics in Formal Pragmatics
Mission
Meet biweekly in order to discuss one or several of recent(ish) papers concerned with formal approaches to pragmatics, broadly construed.
Time and Place
Every other Wednesday at 9:30am in Margaret Jacks Hall (B460), Room 127B ("Chair's Office").Mailing List
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Upcoming
- Summer Hiatus
Meetings will start again in the beginning of the Fall quarter.
Past Meetings
- Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Benz, A. & van Rooij, R. (2007) Optimal assertions, and what they implicate. A uniform game theoretic approach. Topoi, 26, pp. 63-78 pdf
- Wednesday, March 6th, 2008 & April 2nd 2008 & April 16th
van Rooij, R. (2003) Questioning to resolve decision problems. Linguistics and Philosophy, 26, pp. 727-763. pdf|mention some example handout
- Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 & Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Blutner, R. & Solstad, T. (2001) Two case studies in lexical pragmatics. In E. Németh & K. Bibok (eds.) Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2001 (ISBN: 0-08-043971-3). Pp. 11-28. pdf
Blutner, R. (1999): Some aspects of optimality in natural language interpretation. In: Helen de Hoop & Henriette de Swart (eds.) Papers on Optimality Theoretic Semantics. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, December 1999, pp 1-21.
Also in: Journal of Semantics, 17 (2000), pp. 189-216. pdf
Contact
Sven Lauersven DOT lauer AT stanford DOT edu
Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 105
(650) 723-9019