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Jan 9, 2010

EURO-XPRAG second call for proposals now open

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Posted by: tiffany

Applications should be submitted by email to info@euro-xprag.org. Deadline: February 18th, 2010. More details available in the "Activities" section!

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Nov 20, 2009

Results of July 2009 call for proposals

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Posted by: tiffany

EURO-XPRAG’s first call for proposals was successful. In the end, eight projects were accepted based on their originality, the innovation it provides to the field, and their potential for success. The eight abstracts can be seen here. Stay tuned for the next call.

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Nov 20, 2009

EURO-XPRAG Site released !

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Posted by: tiffany

EURO-XPRAG has now its own website! Here, visitors will find information about our fields of interest, our goals and methodology, and also all the news about conferences, calls for proposals and other events related to this program. Abstracts of projects that are supported by this program are accessible to the public in the “Activities” section.

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EURO-XPRAG second call for proposals

Proposals will bring together teams of at least two researchers to conduct collaborative research in experimental pragmatics. Accepted projects will be reimbursed for travel expenses up to EUR 4000 distributed over a two year period starting March 1, 2010.

Note that proposals that include a single collaborator from a non-member country (e.g. U.S.A., Japan, Canada) will also be considered (such collaborations are required to respect the same expense-limits as those taking place within Europe and, by ESF rules, can only be a small number of all accepted proposals).

In addition, successful applicants will be invited to present their projects at a workshop to be held at the University of Leuven, Belgium, on June 10-12, 2010. The workshop’s objectives will be to provide feedback on the experimental paradigms and their testing of semantic and pragmatic theory.

Given that the goal of Experimental Pragmatics is to bring together opposing theories around the investigation of specific phenomena, EURO-XPRAG will privilege proposals built around Adversarial Collaborations. Ideally, these consist of a group containing two researchers with opposing points of view on a specific topic and an arbiter. The members of the collaboration would aim to work out in detail specific opposing predictions within an experimental paradigm and ultimately to test those predictions.

About EURO-XPRAG

Research in pragmatics has seen accelerated growth over the last ten years for two main reasons. One is that the field has engaged semanticists and the other is that it has continued to encourage collaboration with experimentalists who have generated data by specifically testing between theories. Taken together, both semantics and pragmatics are in a better position to resolve theoretical disputes, to advance beyond armchair theory making and to make their theories more accessible to the cognitive science community at large. Conversely, those who take an experimental approach to the investigation of pragmatic phenomena have benefited from having multiple theories at their disposal as provided by semantics and pragmatics. The upshot has been the emergence of an interdisciplinary field known as Experimental Pragmatics. Although this field has advanced considerably due to multiple individual efforts, these evolving collaborations have sought a more permanent platform. This led to the birth of the present network.

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