[PLing] CfP Semantics, pragmatics, and logic workshop at Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2024

[Mojmir Docekal]

Dear all,

please find attached the Call for papers for a workshop Semantics, 
pragmatics, and logic workshop at the Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2024 
(Prague), organized by Mojmír Dočekal (Masaryk university), Matej 
Drobňák (University of Hradec Králové) and Jiří Raclavský (Masaryk 
university):

https://bcl2024.ff.cuni.cz/en/workshops/#semantikapragmatika

Abstract submissions (deadline 25.3.2024):

https://bcl2024.ff.cuni.cz/en/call/

Mojmír Dočekal

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In the 20th century, linguistics was fundamentally influenced by logic, 
first with the emergence of formal semantics (Montague 1974), then in 
the 1970s–1990s, with the formal-semantic incorporation of modal logic 
(Kratzer 1977), followed by the dynamic turn in pragmatics (Kamp and 
Reyle 1993) and semantics. Then, after formal semantics and pragmatics 
were established, the early 1990s saw the experimental turn that brought 
new methods of collecting data and the associated statistical models 
necessary to evaluate them (Baayen 2008). These formal-experimental 
methods were also applied to Slavic (and also Czech) data; see many 
conferences (followed by proceedings) such as FASL and FDSL. These data 
have then sometimes become important in contemporary theoretical 
linguistic debates, touching the traditional big topics, such as the 
meaning of definite descriptions (Šimík and Demian 2020) or the 
so-called theories of plurality (TP). TP followed the development of 
logical tools for describing the grammatical number and numerals meaning 
(Link 1983) and is one of the most influential contemporary 
subdisciplines of formal semantics (see Dotlačil 2010; Dočekal and 
Wągiel 2021, a.o.). This panel follows both the trend mentioned above 
and the Czech linguistics tradition of research on informational 
structure (Sgall, Hajičová, and Panevová 1986) or the semantic 
investigations of sentences (Daneš 1968, Karlík 1995). This motivates 
the choice of topics (see the already mentioned traditional big 
questions). At the same time, we welcome modern pragmatic topics such as 
the social dimensions of meaning, Bayesian models of interpretation, 
presuppositions/implicatures, and formal models of language acquisition. 
This list of topics is necessarily incomplete and remains open to all 
contributions from (experimental) semantics, pragmatics, logic, and 
philosophy of language. The common denominator of the papers should 
focus on the relation of natural language to linguistic/logical or 
analytical/philosophical problems. The research question of a given 
abstract should then address the linguistic data as a tool for moving 
our linguistic/logical/linguistic-philosophical investigations forward.

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doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D.
Associate professor
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages
https://www.muni.cz/lide/15952-mojmir-docekal