Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Semantics and Pragmatics Reading group (S&P)

We will discuss different issues in Semantics and Pragmatics, including: meaning and commitment; the nature and structure of context, and non at issue meaning.

 

The group will meet every other Wednesday after the Logos Colloquium, 17h15–19h15, Ramon Llull Room.

 

The list of planned readings includes:

 

Mazzarella, Diana, Robert Reinecke, Ira Noveck, Hugo Mercier (2018), Saying, presupposing and implicating: How pragmatics modulates commitment. Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 133, August 2018, Pages 15-27

 

García-Carpintero, M. (2018). On the Nature of Presupposition: A Normative Speech Act Account. Forthcoming in Erkenntnis

 

Stojnić, U., Stone, M., and Lepore, E. (2017). Discourse and logical form: pronouns, attention, and coherence. Linguistics and Philosophy.

 

Geurts, Bart , 2018, Convention and common ground, Mind and Language 33 (2):115-129

 

Bach, Kent, 2012, Context Dependence. In Manuel García-Carpintero & Max Kölbel (eds.), The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Continuum International.

 

Glanzberg, Michael, Not All Contextual Parameters Are Alike, ms.

 

Davies, Alex, forthcoming, Communicating by doing something else. In Tamara Dobler, John Collins & Alun Davies (eds.), Themes from Charles Travis: On Language, Thought, and Perception. Oxford University Press.

 

Hansen, Nat, 2011,  Color Adjectives and Radical Contextualism, Linguistics and Philosophy 34 (3):201-221 (2011)

 

Rabern, B., 2012, Against the identification of assertoric content with compositional value. Synthese, 189(1):75–96.

 



Convenor:

Andre Bazzoni

Sessions

  • Semantics and Pragmatics RG

    Mazzarella, Diana, Robert Reinecke, Ira Noveck, Hugo Mercier (2018), Saying, presupposing and implicating: How pragmatics modulates commitment. Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 133, August 2018, Pages 15-27

     

    Summary: André Bazzoni

    10 October 2018

    17:15

  • Semantics and Pragmatics RG

    Geurts, Bart. 2018. Communication as Commitment Making: Speech Acts, Implicatures, Common Ground. (ms.)

     

    Summary: Neri Marsili

    24 October 2018

    17:15

  • Semantics and Pragmatics RG

    Boulat, Kira, and Didier Maillat. 2017. She Said You Said I Saw It with My Own Eyes : A Pragmatic Account of Commitment, In J. Blochowiak et al. (eds.), Formal Models in the Study of Language. 

     

    Summary: André Bazzoni

    07 November 2018

    17:15

  • Semantics and Pragmatics RG

    García-Carpintero, M. (2018). On the Nature of Presupposition: A Normative Speech Act Account. Forthcoming in Erkenntnis.

     

    Summary: M. García-Carpintero

    21 November 2018

    17:15

  • Semantics and Pragmatics RG

    Tonhauser, J. (2015), Are 'informative presuppositions' presuppositions? Language & Linguistics Compass,  9 (2):77-101.

     

    Summary: Afra Montero

    05 December 2018

    17:15

  • Semantics and Pragmatics RG


    Sennet, A. (2018). Presupposition triggering and disambiguation. In G. Preyer, Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP.
     

    Summary: Adam Sennet

    16 January 2019

    17:15

  • Semantics and Pragmatics RG

     

    Abrusán, M. (2016). Presupposition cancellation: explaining the ‘soft–hard’ trigger distinction, Natural Language Semantics 24:165–202


    Summary: Ramón García

    06 February 2019

    17:15

  • Semantics and Pragmatics RG

     

    Abrusán, M. (2016). Presupposition cancellation: explaining the ‘soft–hard’ trigger distinction, Natural Language Semantics 24:165–202

    13 March 2019

    17:15

  • Semantics and Pragmatics RG


    Samuel Cumming. 2013. FROM COORDINATION TO CONTENT. philosophers’ imprint. volume 13, no. 4. november 2013 


    Summary: Ramón García

    03 April 2019

    17:15

  • Semantics and Pragmatics RG


    Del Pinal, G. "On the computation of scalar implicatures: Oddness, modularity and logical vs. contextual entailment". Ms., University of Michigan.
     

    Summary: Guillermo del Pinal

    15 May 2019

    17:15