Grice's f irst maxim of quality says "do not say what y ou believe to be false", but we often do. We tell lies ("I did not have sexual relations w ith that woman"), we deceive (e.g. by lying b y implicature), we bullshit ("Trade wars are easy to win"), we make up stories ("When Harry Potter first came to Hogwarts …"), we pretend (Kids playing: "You were Batgirl and I was Wonder Woman"), or we use irony (" Losing the key was very smart!"). In all such speech acts there is a clear sense in which we're not, or at least not literally, speaking the trut h. In this workshop we want to discuss the challen ges that these and other deviations from the Grice an norm of quality pose for semantics and pragmati cs and see if we can incorporate ideas from philos ophy, literary theory, cognitive science and other related fields to extend the coverage of our theo ries of meaning and our understanding of the dynam ics and logic of (non-)cooperative conversation.\n\n
Invited speakers: Regine Eckardt (Konst anz) and Jörg Meibauer (Mainz). Organized by Danie l Gutzmann (Cologne), Emar Maier (Groningen), and Katharina Turgay (Landau).
\nSend anonymous two-page abstracts for 20 minute ta lks (plus 10 minutes discussion) in pdf-format to: turgay at uni-landau.de Deadline: A ugust 15, 2018.
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