Questioning Speech Acts (QSA) 2017

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Thursday, September 14, 2017

09:00 - 10:30 Christine Gunlogson (Rochester)
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:45 Sunwoo Jeong (Stanford): Deriving Social Meanings in an Extended Lewisian Model
11:45 - 12:30 Deniz Rudin (Santa Cruz): Intonation as a Speech Act Modifier: Rising Declaratives and Imperatives
LUNCH
02:00 - 02:45 Peter Klecha (Swarthmore): On the Syntax and Semantics of Assertion
02:45 - 03:30 Yael Greenberg (Bar-Ilan) and Lavi Wolf (Ben Gurion): Gradable Assertion Speech Acts
COFFEE BREAK
04:00 - 04:45 Alda Mari (Jean Nicod): Belief and assertion. Evidence from mood shift.
04:45 — 05:30 Sven Lauer (Konstanz): Moore’s paradox and hedging with “I believe”: An attempt.

Friday, September 15, 2017

09:00 - 10:30 Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford)
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:45 Kelsey Kraus (Santa Cruz): English mirative contours and particles
11:45 - 12:30 Tyler Peterson (Auckland): Modal Evidentials in Questions
LUNCH
02:00 - 02:45 Itamar Francez (Chicago): Suggesterogatives
02:45 - 03:30 Dietmar Zaefferer (Munich): Questioning performatives
COFFEE BREAK
04:00 - 05:30 Joe Buffington (Albany Law)

Saturday, September 16, 2017

09:00 - 10:30 Magdalena Kaufmann (UConn)
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:45 Matthew Lamm and Mihail Eric (Stanford): A Machine Learning Perspective on the Pragmatics of Indirect Commands
11:45 - 12:30 Hans-Martin Gärtner (RIL-HAS) and Markus Steinbach (Göttingen): Relating Inventories of Sentence Types and Speech Acts: A Look at Cognitive Approaches
LUNCH
02:00 - 02:45 Manfred Krifka (ZAS/Humboldt): Conditional sentences as conditional speech acts
02:45 - 03:30 Bart Geurts (Nijmegen): Commitments, speech acts, and common ground
COFFEE BREAK
04:00 - 04:45 Ariel Cohen (Ben Gurion) and Manfred Krifka (ZAS/Humboldt): Challenging Speech Acts
04:45 — 05:30 Regine Eckardt (Konstanz)