Context and Content - Topics in Formal Pragmatics
Date: July 15, 2005
Time: 8:30am-7pm
Location: Harvard, Jefferson 250

This one-day workshop will bring together researchers in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language to discuss the role of context in interpretation. Possible topics of focus include:

• Context-Relativity (of Modals, Knowledge Attributions, ...)
• Speech Acts in Compositional Semantics
• Expressive Meanings
• Indexicals and Monsters
• Implicature Projection

Organizer:
Kai von Fintel

Contact:
fintel@mit.edu

Invited Speakers and Commentators:
Gennaro Chierchia
Danny Fox & Martin Hackl
Angelika Kratzer
Bob Stalnaker

Deadline for abstract submission
May 15, 2005
http://semantics-online.org/lsacc