http://www.linguistic-institute.info/experimental.htm
and the call for papers is here:
http://www.linguistic-institute.info/callexp.htm
Billy
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Developments in Experimental Pragmatics
The upcoming issue of LPP aims at presenting and exploring new research evidence concerning a range of pragmatic phenomena by employing experimental methodologies developed in psycholinguistics and experimental social psychology to investigate issues raised in linguistic-pragmatics literature.
We welcome contributions on a wide range of issues, such as: psychology of reasoning, spontaneous communicative inferencing, macro- and micro-pragmatic analysis of reasoning tasks, automaticity vs. controllability of pragmatic processes, psychological and neurophysiological investigations into online comprehension processes of (figurative) communication, weak and strong communication, speaker's meaning versus sentence meaning, processing models of sentence and utterance meaning, figurative language comprehension, direct and indirect speech acts, explicatures and implicatures, reference resolution, quantifiers scope, lexical disambiguation, and other issues of interest to pragmalinguistics.
The interdisciplinary framework of experimental pragmatics offers an opportunity to explore a range of communicative meaning phenomena that have been so far explored separately in autonomous and unconnected domains of linguistics, psychology and neurology. In order to obtain detailed communicative comprehension models of (on-line) meaning construction, interdisciplinary approach needs to be adopted to allow for integrating both theory and research tools of all the branches of cognitive sciences that strive to uncover the nature meaning.
For more information: Go to http://versita.com/science/socialsciences/lpp/
Deadline: 3-May-2010
Contact:
Dr. Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (LPP editor): iw.plisiecka@gmail.com
Dr. Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, (LPP special issue guest editor) kasia.dyzman@ifa.amu.edu.pl
Thus begins the (draft of the) book entitled Quantity Implicatures by Bart Geurts. To read more click below.
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Department of Philosophy, University of Nijmegen
Closing date: October 5, 2009
These positions are part of a four-year research programme entitled "Quantity matters", which is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The project leader is Bart Geurts. The principal aim of the programme is to develop a comprehensive theory of quantity implicatures. Although the project's central objective is theoretical in nature, it has a significant empirical component as well, involving a range of experimental studies on quantity implicatures that will provide us with a broader and more solid database than is currently available.
For more information on the programme, go here.
REQUIREMENTS
Candidates should have a background in semantics and pragmatics, and preferably have at least some experience with experimental methods.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Doctoral positions (vacancy number 26.03.09):
- Maximum employment: 1,0 fte
- Maximum salary per month, based on fulltime employment: € 2,612 gross/month
- Duration of the contract: January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2013
Post-doctoral position (vacancy number 26.02.09):
- Maximum employment: 1,0 fte
- Maximum salary per month, based on fulltime employment: € 4,374 gross/month
- Salary scale: 11
- Duration of the contract: January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2011
FURTHER INFORMATION
Bart Geurts
- Telephone: +31 24 361 6217
- E-mail: bart.geurts@phil.ru.nl
APPLICATIONS
Applications should refer to the appropriate vacancy number and include a curriculum vitae, contact information for at least two referees, and a cover letter describing research interests. Applications must be sent before October 5, 2009 to: vacatures@dpo.ru.nl
Research in experimental pragmatics generates data as it tests between theories of pragmatics. After having seen accelerated growth over the last ten years, experimental pragmatics is now in a better position to resolve theoretical disputes, to advance beyond armchair theory-making and to make pragmatic theories more accessible to the cognitive science community at large. As part of an effort to provide a more permanent platform, a Research Network Program known as EURO-XPRAG supported by the ESF is now kicking off through a call for proposals that will support collaborative research.
Proposals that are accepted will bring together teams of at least two researchers to conduct collaborative research in experimental pragmatics. Accepted projects will be reimbursed for travel expenses up to EUR 4000 distributed over a two year period starting October 15th, 2009. The travel expenses must be distributed over two or three short trips, with the first trip taking place in 2009 (see note a in "Further details" at euro-xprag.org).
In addition, successful applicants will be invited to present their projects at a workshop to be held at the University of Leuven, Belgium, on June 10-12, 2010. The workshop's objectives will be to provide feedback on the experimental paradigms and their testing of semantic and pragmatic theory.
Given that the goal of Experimental Pragmatics is to bring together opposing theories around the investigation of specific phenomena, EURO-XPRAG will privilege proposals built around Adversarial Collaborations. Ideally, these consist of a group containing two researchers with opposing points of view on a specific topic and an arbiter. The members of the collaboration would aim to work out in detail specific opposing predictions within an experimental paradigm and ultimately to test those predictions. This has been practiced among cognitive scientists in the past (see Mellers, Hertwig and Kahneman, 2001 for a detailed illustration) and requires a strong arbiter to mount a mutually agreed experiment. See Mellers, Hertwig & Kahnemann, (2001)1, and especially Table 1 (at the website euro-xprag.org) on creating an Adversarial Collaboration.
The potential themes to be covered include, but are not limited to, presupposition, referential terms, metaphor and figurative uses, implicatures, acquisition and development of pragmatics, and lexical pragmatics. Proposals will be evaluated for their overall quality and for the added value they bring to Experimental Pragmatics. Funds are limited to travel expenses linked to the collaboration (i.e. they are not designed for costs related to experimental procedures, which can be covered by other sources or by the host institutions).
For further details, go to http://www.euro-xprag.org/
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Austria (Josef Perner)
Belgium (Walter Schaeken)
Denmark (Anne-Marie Bulow)
France (Ira Noveck*#)
Germany (Uli Sauerland#)
Holland (Bart Geurts#)
Norway (Bergljot Behrens)
Poland (Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman)
Spain (Louise McNally)
Sweden (Peter Pagin)
Switzerland (Jacques Moeschler)
*Chair
# Co-submitter
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Hopefully, more countries will join as the Network gathers steam. For example, Richard Breheny, who also worked considerably on the accepted proposal, was at the kick off meeting that was held this past Tuesday in Strasbourg (as an observer from the UK) .
Keep in mind the following:
Cheerfully,
Ira
]]>To the Institut des Sciences Cognitives (67 Boulevard Pinel, Bron), next to Hopital Vinatier.
From "centre-ville," there are two options:
Option 1 (especially if it is a nice day):
The most efficient way to get here is with the Tram T2 (direction St Priest Bel Air). Get off at Vinatier (the 11th stop from Perrache). When you get out from that station, do a 180, cross the tracks, veer left towards the main boulevard (Boulevard Pinel) and turn right on to it. Then, walk exactly 1 km to the Institut (follow the bike path). It's a 10 minute walk (on New Yorker standards). You'll pass the grounds of Hôpital Vinatier on your right the entire distance.
Option 2 is a variation on Option 1 (especially if the 10 minute walk is untenable):
Get to Grange Blanche, a prominent stop on the Tram T2 (the 9th stop from Perrache) as well as a stop on the Metro's D line. Grange Blanche is on the eastern side of the city map and the D is usually marked in green. Get into the Traffic Circle (which is also a minor station for several buses) and look for the bus 28, direction LAURENT BONNEVAY. Assuming the McDonald's (which should be visible) represents 12 o'clock on the traffic circle, the bus stop is at approximately 3 o'clock. The bus takes a long, circuitous (up to 20 minute) route and leaves you directly in front of the Institut des Sciences Cognitives. The bus stop is known as Parc Chambovet (and follows the stop known as Hopitals Desgenettes et Vinatier).
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