Call for Abstracts: Communication, Context, Conversation Workshop

ECOM (Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning) Research Group will host its 6th annual workshop at UConn on May 3-4 (MCHU/Laurel 305), 2019: “Communication, Context, Conversation”. The workshop will bring together researchers working on the pragmatics, linguistic analysis, and comparative and developmental psychology of communication and conversation.

Invited speakers include:

Anne Bezuidenhout (U of SC)
Robyn Carston (UCL)

Danielle Mathews (Sheffield)

Federico Rossano (UCSD)

Mandy Simons (CMU)

Also on the program: Ruth Millikan, Mitch Green, and Dorit Bar-On (of UConn). A CFP has now been posted on PhilEvents.

(Abstracts — 500-1,000 words, excluding references — should be ready for blind review and include the title of the paper; they should make clear both the topic and the main arguments of the paper. The paper should be suited for a 30-minute presentation, which will be followed by a 15-minute discussion. Please send a separate document with the title of the paper, author’s name, affiliation (if any), and contact information. Abstracts should be sent to Aliyar Ozercan aliyar.ozercan by February 1st, 2019. Notifications of acceptance will be sent no later than February 20, 2019. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to send a draft of their paper by April 1st, 2019.)