Games and Decisions in Pragmatics

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Conference Berlin, January 6-7th, 2006 * Jägerstraße 10-11, 10117 Berlin, Room 006
Organisation: Anton Benz, SDU, Kolding, Denmark * Manfred Krifka, ZAS, Berlin, Germany
At: Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research (ZAS)
Program


Friday, 6th January

9:00
Reception

9:45
Opening

10:00

Gerhard Jäger: Implicatures and Best Response Dynamics

11:05

Short Break

11:10

Samson de Jager: Why isn't Pragmatics Semanticised?
12:00

Lunch

13:30

J. German, E. Sagy et al.: The Role of Hearers’ Beliefs in the Interpretation of Logical Connectives

14:20

James German: The Cost of Prosodic Markedness as a Rationale for the Placement and Interpretation of Accents

15:10

Break

15:40

Tim & Tom Roeper: Game Theory, Pragmatic Calculus and Syntactic Empty Categories


16:30

Gemma Bel-Enguix, M. Dolores Jiménez-López: Turn-taking Games in Conversations






Saturday, 7th January
10:00

Robert Stalnaker: Strategic communication
11:05

Short Break

11:10

Patrick Hawley: Which Model?
12:00

Break

12:30

Anton Benz: Natural Meaning and Conversational Implicatures
13:20

Robert van Rooij: Risk-dominant Linguistic Conventions
14:10

Closing

Contact: benz at sitkom dot sdu dot dk
Previous Conference: http://anton-benz.de/gdp/gdp.html