Return-Path: Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa10735; 14 Feb 94 21:14:22 EST Received: from ipdunivx.unipd.it by CS.CMU.EDU id aa16850; 14 Feb 94 21:13:56 EST Return-receipt-to: ELIFAVA@IPDUNIVX.UNIPD.IT Received: from IPDUNIVX.UNIPD.IT by IPDUNIVX.UNIPD.IT (PMDF V4.2-14 #4588) id <01H8VF0CCFGG002MGD@IPDUNIVX.UNIPD.IT>; Mon, 14 Feb 1994 10:25:02 +0100 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 10:25:01 +0100 From: ELIFAVA@IPDUNIVX.UNIPD.IT Subject: call for papers To: Mariel@taucivm, nadia@ling.msk.su, auwera@reks.uia.ac.be, bates@crl.ucsd.edu, erme@ms950.cisi.unito.it, kcusb@hujivl1, bls@garnet.Berkeley.edu, d.brown@surrey.ac.uk, cardin@iveuncc.BITNET, PZ7RAIS1@icineca.BITNET, cogsci94@ubvms.BITNET, J.H.connolly@ut.ac.uh, cogsci94@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu, linvan@ubvms.BITNET, steve@bumeta.bu.edu, usera123@sfu.bitnet, Delfitto@hutruu59.bitnet, delmont@unive.it, a750dag@awiuni11.bitnet, aef@maties.sun.ac.za, david@nmsu.edu, suzanne@garnet.berkeley.edu, sed91LN@buacca.BITNET, Bfraser@bu-pub.bu.edu, anna@sogei.it, GERDTS@sfu.ca, Glow@kub.nl, no5OO75@univscum, goutsosd@uk.ac.birminghan, grewendorf@lingua.unifrankfurt.dbp.de, grimsha@ucs.indiana.edu, grimshaw@ruccs.rutgers.edu, Khale@athena.mit.edu, Halpern@ling.ohio-state.edu, Hedberg@sfu.ca, 1224@jpnac.bitnet, hobbs@ai.sri.com, 71721.2655@Compute.serve, dieter@it.chalmers.se, hhhock@ux1.cso.uniuc.edu, bjoseph@ling.ohio-state.edu, andreas.jucker@anglistik.uni-giessen.dbp.de, mkant@cs.cmu.edu, t741280@uhccmvs.bitnet, h955kie@ella.mu, kinsui@icluna.kobe-u.ac.jp, kubo@matsuyama-u.ac.jp, ihlee@bubble.yonsey.ac.kr, clee@krsnucc1.BITNET, cogant@mpNL, Pmiller@ulb.ac.be, Mulder@alf.let.uva.nl, Nuyts@reks.uia.ac.be, Janez.oresnik@uni.-Ij.ac.mail.si, RoPer@VM.CNUCE.CNR.IT, GLOTTA@IPVCCN.BITNET, REINHART@TAUNIUM.BITNET, LREPETTI@CCMAIL.SUNYSB.EDU, Sag@csli.stanford.edu, his@uwasa.fi, snowcat@hugse1.HARVARD.EDU, carlota@emx.cc.utexas.edu, uclynvs@uk.ac.ucl, h.spencer@uk.ac.luton.vaxz, pstevens@auc.eg, Ervin-Tr@cogsci.berkeley.edu, takahara-k@cubldr.colorado.edu, userheem@umichub.bitnet, yano@jpnwasoo, dwanner@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, ward@pico.ling.nwu.edu, kwilling@suna.mgcc.mg.oz.au, ipra@ccu.uia.ac.be, ipra@reks.uia.ac.be, Viglioc@univ.trieste.it, nbVincent@uk.ac.manchester, mo7bova1@icineca.BITNET, weoscat@lisa.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp, zwicky@ling.ohio-state.edu Message-id: <01H8VF0CEAYQ002MGD@IPDUNIVX.UNIPD.IT> X-Envelope-to: mkant@cs.cmu.edu X-VMS-To: @MAILLIST MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Universita di Padova Dipartimento di linguistica Via Beato Pellegrino 1 Palazzo Maldura I-35100 Padova (Italia) Fax 39. 49. 8760989 Dear colleague, there will be a workshop on speech acts and linguistic research at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science held in Buffalo this July, 1994. You are invited to participate. Best regards Elisabetta Fava Please Post Please Post Please Post Please Post Please Post Please Our apologies in advance for duplicate copies of this you may receive Call for Papers for a Workshop on "SPEECH ACTS AND LINGUISTIC RESEARCH" A participant symposium to be held during the FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE (FISI-CS) Center for Cognitive Science State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo NY, USA (Amherst Campus) July 16-17, 1994 PURPOSE The aim of the workshop is to discuss some issues concerning the interrelations of speech acts and linguistic theory. The state of the art suggests that this interface has been only partially explored. On the one hand, only a few of the language phenomena dealt with in speech act theory have been the object of intensive research in linguistic theory. On the other hand, the literature on speech acts has revealed only desultory interest in linguistic theories. Contributions to the workshop may be either on methodological or on theoretical issues. Our aim is to do justice to the interdisciplinary complexity of this interface and evaluate its relevance in the development of cognitive science; to discuss general problems posed by different analyses; to bring under scrutiny theoretical assumptions taken for granted in recent analyses, which may not be so obvious as they seem; to investigate how even apparently minimal choices in the description of phenomena may affect the form and complexity of the interface; and to stress the theoretical and methodological relevance of the tools developed in this area by focusing on empirical data of different languages. CALL FOR PAPERS Possible topics for papers might includes: - meaning and illocutionary force - the role of illocutionary literal force - acts, actions and language - speech acts and Universal Grammar - linguistic variations and their bearings on a theory of language; historical change (morphologization and demorphologization rules in speech acts, etc.); cross linguistic variations in the grammaticalization of different kinds of speech acts; variations within the same language (consider puzzling phenomena such as questions presenting both Wh movement or Wh in situ, single or Multiple Wh questions, presence of finite and infinite verb forms in main clause, mood distinctions, etc.) - formal versus functional analysis of speech acts grammatical strategies (morphology and inflectional moods, clitic affixation and syntactic constituency, movement rules in syntax, etc.) - the lexicon (speech acts types and the structure of the lexicon, semantic structure in lexical forms, etc.) - speech acts representations in grammatical theory - speech acts units and linguistic units - phenomena that can to be regarded as depending on linguistic competence or on standardised linguistic performance - a grammar free from pragmatics or a pragmatics free from grammar? - speech acts distinctions in the history of linguistic thought - ambiguity, conventionality, indirectness and linguistic forms - sociocultural determinants and cross linguistic variations - different cultures and different conceptualisation - linguistic and non linguistic aspects of rules and conventions in conversation - directness, indirectness, politeness and 'cultural scripts' in cross-cultural approaches - contributions from language acquisition (bilingualism, first language acquisition) - conversational analysis, ethnomethodology and linguistic structures - communication processes SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors interested in presenting a paper should submit 3 copies of a one-page abstracts which should contain title, name, affiliation, surface and e-mail address of the author (or the authors). If desired, a paper not exceeding 10 pages can be submitted. Submissions should be sent by hard mail, or by fax and arrive by April 15, 1994, to: ELISABETTA FAVA DIPARTIMENTO di LINGUISTICA VIA BEATO PELLEGRINO 1 PALAZZO MALDURA universita di padova I-35100 PADOVA (ITALY) FAX +39. 49. 8760989 E- MAIL: ELIFAVA@UNIPAD.UNIPD.IT ELIFAVA@IPDUNIVX.UNIPD.IT Phone: Home +39. 49. 8756994 Department +39. 49. 651688 Only submissions which meet this deadline will be included in the official FISI Participant symposium Handbook. Subject to time-table considerations we may also accept submissions received after April 15, but early submission is strongly encouraged. The time allotted for each paper (including discussion) is 40 minutes. Authors will be informed by April 26, 1994 as to the acceptance of their papers. REGISTRATION AND FEES Workshop participants have to register for the Summer Institute for Cognitive Science, either for the whole institute or for at least the week beginning or ending July 16-17. The registration fee for one week are U$ 350 for academic affiliates (faculty /student), and US$ 650 for non academic affiliates. It should be pointed out that partial registering for a week entitles the registrant to attend all lectures, workshops and tutorials held during that week, as well as the workshop. Full registration for the whole summer institute will of course entitle to attend the workshop also. Please register early. Only registered participants will have access to Institute events. The deadline for advance registration at discounted rates is: April 30, 1994. To register for the workshop and the Summer Institute please write to: FISI-CS Office of Conferences and Special Events Room 120 Center for tomorrow University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-1602 USA Phone : 716- 645-2018 Fax : 716- 645-3825 E-MAIL: cogsci94@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu Deadlines Submission of papers, April 15, 1994 Notification of acceptance, April 26, 1994 Advance Registration for the Summer Institute, April 30, 1994.