Workshop organized by project A4
When: September 21-22, 2026
Where: Goethe University Frankfurt
Workshop Description: The workshop addresses the relationship between at-issueness and commitment in natural language semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, philosophy of language, and related fields. At-issueness and commitment are central notions in the analysis of meaning and discourse, each widely studied in its own right. However, the relationship between the two remains unresolved. Existing findings paint a mixed picture: while pragmatic inferences such as implicatures are often associated with comparatively weak commitment attributions, other types of non-at-issue meaning, such as presuppositions, have been argued to involve comparatively strong commitment attributions. Questions about the relationship between at-issueness and commitment also arise across a wide range of phenomena, including attitude reports, appositives, evidentials, expressive meaning, gestures, and ideophones.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together work that addresses this relationship across theoretical frameworks, empirical domains, and methodologies.
Submission platform: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/AIC/
Important dates:
- Submissions open: June 3, 2026
- Submission deadline: July 3, 2026, 23:59 CEST
- Review period: July 3–15, 2026
Confirmed speakers:
- Anna Kocher (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
- Corien Bary (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Martina Faller (The University of Manchester)
