[Update: The call for papers just appeared on LINGUIST list.]

On July 15, during the 2005 LSA Institute at MIT and Harvard, we will hold a one-day workshop on “Context and Content – Topics in Formal Pragmatics”.

The workshop will bring together researchers in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language to discuss the role of context in interpretation. Possible topics of focus include:

• Context-Relativity (of Modals, Knowledge Attributions, …)
• Speech Acts in Compositional Semantics
• Expressive Meanings
• Indexicals and Monsters
• Implicature Projection

The invited speakers are

• Gennaro Chierchia
• Danny Fox & Martin Hackl
• Angelika Kratzer
• Bob Stalnaker

Each of the talks will be 40 minutes long. There will be 10 minutes of comments from a designated commentator and then ample time for questions and discussion from the audience.

We would welcome abstracts for a small number of contributed papers. Abstracts should be no longer than 3 pages (including examples and references) in a legible font. Only electronic submissions of pdf files will be accepted.

Abstracts should be sent to

Important dates:

• May 15: Abstract Submission Deadline
• May 22: Notification of acceptance
• June 15: Draft of paper due (for distribution to commentators)
• July 15: Workshop