{"id":5715,"date":"2014-02-03T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2014-02-02T10:07:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T14:07:24","slug":"24-979-topics-in-semantics-the-linguistics-of-the-conversational-scoreboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/02\/03\/24-979-topics-in-semantics-the-linguistics-of-the-conversational-scoreboard\/","title":{"rendered":"24.979 Topics in Semantics: The Linguistics of the Conversational Scoreboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>24.979 Topics in Semantics: The Linguistics of the Conversational Scoreboard<br clear='none'\/>\nKai von Fintel, Sabine Iatridou, Justin Khoo<br clear='none'\/>\nFridays 12-3, 32D-461<br clear='none'\/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/sp14\/24.979\/\">https:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/sp14\/24.979\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short abstract: &#8220;Wait till you hear what Kai, Sabine, and Justin are learning about discourse and language. You won&#8217;t believe what happens next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are linguistic phenomena (discourse particles, evidentials, speaker comments, sentence mood (?) etc.) that do not appear to contribute to the standard truth-conditional denotation of sentences but rather seem to be involved in the pragmatic deployment of these sentences in an evolving conversation. We&#8217;re planning to look at some recent work that tackles these kinds of items. Here is a small sample:<\/p>\n<p>Krifka, Manfred. 2013. Embedding illocutionary acts. to appear in revised form in a volume ed. by Margaret Speas and Tom Roeper, Recursion: Complexity in Cognition, Springer. (<a href=\"http:\/\/amor.cms.hu-berlin.de\/~h2816i3x\/Publications\/Krifka_EmbeddingIllocutionaryActs.pdf\">pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Yablo, Stephen. 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/acprof:oso\/9780199591596.003.0010\">A problem about permission and possibility<\/a>. In Andy Egan & Brian Weatherson (eds.), Epistemic modality. Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Portner, Paul. 2007. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11050-007-9022-y\">Imperatives and modals<\/a>. Natural Language Semantics 15(4). 351\u0096383.<\/p>\n<p>Farkas, Donka F. & Kim B. Bruce. 2009. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/jos\/ffp010\">On reacting to assertions and polar questions<\/a>. Journal of Semantics 27(1). 81\u0096118. <\/p>\n<p>Murray, Sarah E. 2014 (to appear). Varieties of update. Semantics and Pragmatics 7(1). 1\u009655. (<a href=\"http:\/\/conf.ling.cornell.edu\/sem\/Varieties-of-update.pdf\">pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Eckardt, Regine. 2014. Speaker commentary items. ms.<\/p>\n<p>Dever, Josh. 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/phpe.12032\">The revenge of the semantics-pragmatics distinction<\/a>. Philosophical Perspectives 27(1). 104\u0096144.<\/p>\n<p>Our plan this semester is to engage with that new literature. We&#8217;ll start by talking about some historical and theoretical background. Then, we&#8217;ll tackle the new work, reflect on it, and situate it within a framework of big issues, such as &#8220;must semantics be dynamic?&#8221;. We will look at syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy, whatever is of relevance. This will be an interdisciplinary joyride.<\/p>\n<p>Readings to be announced as we move along. They will be available via Stellar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24.979 Topics in Semantics: The Linguistics of the Conversational Scoreboard Kai von Fintel, Sabine Iatridou, Justin Khoo Fridays 12-3, 32D-461 https:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/sp14\/24.979\/ Short abstract: &#8220;Wait till you hear what Kai, Sabine, and Justin are learning about discourse and language. 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