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Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop:

The Construction of Meaning

The Semantics and Pragmatics workshop has been in existence as an informal study group holding discussion meetings, presentations of ongoing student and faculty work and guest lectures for several years. In the past two years it gained considerable momentum, with a growing number of students, faculty, and visitors participating and a diversification of interests that has often attracted audiences from other departments at Stanford and several other nearby institutions. During the academic year 1999/2000 and again this academic year, the workshop is being sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge their support, which has allowed an expansion of the Workshop's activities; it has allowed us to host several events with invited speakers and to hold the first day-long Semantics Fest in March 2000.

This year we have chosen a theme for each quarter, and we will invite several speakers whose research is relevant to that theme. Autumn Quarter will be dedicated to Philosophy of Language; Winter Quarter to Interfaces; and Spring Quarter to Conceptual Semantics. Speakers will have about 45 minutes to talk, followed by ample time for questions and discussion. We plan to recommend preparatory readings which will be announced along with the talks on this web site, and we plan to schedule informal meetings prior to the talks where we discuss these readings in preparation for the speakers' visits. In addition, we will also hold some workshop meetings with local speakers on topics in semantics that fall outside the quarterly theme. During the Autumn quarter, the workshop will usually meet on Thursday afternoons.

Here are links to some of the regular members of the group:*

Faculty:

Students:

*If you feel sufficiently associated with the workshop to have your name listed here and it isn't, just drop us a note. If your name does appear here but you think it shouldn't, let us know.

These pages are maintained by Luis Casillas.
Mail comments to casillas@stanford.edu.
Last modified: Tue May 15 21:55:11 2001

This workshop is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, and funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.