Semantics and Pragmatics (S&P)

General description
The Semantics and Pragmatics RG 2022-23 will meet, every other week, on Tuesdays, 15h-17h, starting on October 25. 

As in previous years, we will read recent work on different topics in Semantics and Pragmatics. Three of the topics that will be covered this year are the interaction between implicatures and presuppositions, the interaction between commitment and the different ways of conveying meaning, and the relevance of Semantics for some issues in metaphysics.

The reading list will be agreed upon and updated as we go along. The initial reading list will include:

- Sutton, Peter (2022) “Countability and the problem of the many” (ms.)

- Simons, Mandy: 2001, “On the conversational basis of some presuppositions”, in. R. Hasting, B. Jackson and Z. Zvolensky (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 11, CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 431-448.

- Abrusán, Márta. 2016. “Presupposition cancellation: explaining the ‘soft–hard’ trigger distinction”, Nat Lang Semantics (2016) 24:165–202

- Stalnaker, R. 2014, Context, chapters 3-4. Oxford University Press. 

- Spector, B., Sudo, Y. 2017. “Presupposed Ignorance and Exhaustification: How Scalar Implicatures and Presuppositions Interact”. Linguistics and Philosophy, 40 (5): 473-517.

-Buchanan, Ray, and Henry Ian Schiller, 2022, “Meaning and Responsibility.” Mind & Language, 
 
-Oswald, Steve. 2022, “Insinuation Is Committing.” Journal of Pragmatics 198: 158–70

 
Please email josep.macia@ub.edu if you would like to join the group at least for some sessions, or if you would like to be in the RG mailing list.

 
Sessions

October 25, 2022
Buchanan, Ray, and Henry Ian Schiller, 2022, “Meaning and Responsibility.” Mind & Language, First published: 09 June 2022.

November 8, 2022
Oswald, Steve. “Insinuation Is Committing.” Journal of Pragmatics 198 (September 2022): 158–70

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