{"id":2004,"date":"2013-08-27T12:57:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2013-08-29T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:45:20","slug":"lira-session-matthijs-westera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/2013\/08\/lira-session-matthijs-westera\/","title":{"rendered":"LIRa Session: Matthijs Westera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday,\u00a0September 5,<strong> <\/strong>we will have a LIRa session with\u00a0<strong><strong>Matthijs Westera<\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is cordially invited!<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0<strong>Matthijs Westera <\/strong>(University of Amsterdam)<br \/>\nTitle:\u00a0<em><strong>Attention, exhaustivity and non-cooperativity<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nDate and Time: Thursday, September 5, 2013,\u00a0<strong>15:30-17:30<\/strong><br \/>\nVenue: Science Park 107, Room\u00a0<strong>F1.15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Two well-known linguistic puzzles can be solved if we assume that pragmatic reasoning, and in particular the Maxim of Relation, is sensitive to the possibilities that an utterance &#8216;draws attention to&#8217;. This is cached out formally by using a semantics that models both informative and attentive content, and defining relevance as informative\/attentive entailment relative to a contingency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first puzzle this solves is how a semantically non-exhaustive answer to a question can convey that it is in fact an exhaustive answer:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Q: Who (among John, Mary and Bill) will come to the party?<br \/>\nA: John will come. &#8211;&gt; Mary and Bill won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The second puzzle is how this exhaustivity implicature can disappear if the answer is pronounced with a sentence-final rising pitch (&#8216;&#8230;&#8217;):<\/p>\n<p>(2) Q: Who (among John, Mary and Bill) will come to the party?<br \/>\nA: John will come&#8230; -\/-&gt; Mary and Bill won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I explain this by assuming that the final rise signals non-cooperativity, and show how this accounts for the many different uses of the final rise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday,\u00a0September 5, we will have a LIRa session with\u00a0Matthijs Westera.<br \/>\nEveryone is cordially invited!<\/p>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0Matthijs Westera (University of Amsterdam)<br \/>\nTitle:\u00a0Attention, exhaustivity and non-cooperativity<br \/>\nDate and Time: Thursday, September 5, 2013,\u00a015:30-17:30<br \/>\nVenue: Science Park 107, Room\u00a0F1.15<br \/>\nAbstract:<\/p>\n<p>Two well-known linguistic puzzles can be solved if we assume that pragmatic reasoning, and in particular the Maxim of Relation, is sensitive to the possibilities [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}