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 Lauer
sven DOT lauer AT stanford DOT edu
Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 105
(650) 723-9019