LOT Winter School 2010
Amsterdam , Free University (VU)
The Netherlands
January 11 - 22, 2010
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Registration
Registration has
closed. All confirmations have been sent.
If there are any late cancellations or changes, please contact the LOT Secretary
as soon as possible: lot@uu.nl / 030 253 6111.
Welcome & Service
On
both Mondays from 9.00 - 9.30 the organization welcomes you with coffee
and tea in room 10A-05 in the main building (same as where
the courses are held).
There will be a Service Desk in room
9A-14. Time schedule: Monday 12.00-13.00 and Tuesday
15.30-16.00.
You can also e-mail Laura Rupp (l.rupp@let.vu.nl) or Olga Steenhoek (o.steenhoek@let.vu.nl).
Drinks & Poster Session
Drinks on Monday 11th and 18th will be available between 18.30 and 19.30 in the grand café The Basket on the university campus.
There will be poster presentations
during the drinks by students on their research topics.
Both teachers and students are invited to join for free drinks and talks.
NB: All participants are
welcome to present a poster on their research topic, there are still places
available!
Please let us know if you are interested via lot@uu.nl
More information will be sent to you.
Postersession programme
To be announced: as soon as names and titles are known, they will be presented here in the programme.
Dinners
On Thursday evenings 14th
and 21st, there will be a dinner, organized by the local organization of the
VU, Amsterdam.
Time and location: 19.30 at the Restaurant Selecta on Vijzelstraat 26. Please
sign in on the lists that you will find on the Service Desk during the school.
The organization will ask a small fee of 10 euros for taking part in each
dinner. Please bring this in cash to the dinners.
Schultink lecture
The Schultink lecture will be given during the second week of the Winter School, on Wednesday January 20th from 19.00 h. to 20.30 h. in room 10A-04. This years speaker will be Herb Clark.
Check out
the Schultink page on Wikipedia: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henk_schultink
Abstract lecture:
Rational ways of using language
Herbert H. Clark
Stanford University
Everyday language is far from the ideal that is modeled in traditional theories
of grammar, pragmatics, and communication. In conversation, speakers decide
what to say in collaboration with their partners; they change course as they
speak, often mid-sentence; and when they misjudge what their partners know,
they deal with the consequences. As a result, they deviate from the ideal: they
pause, add uh and um, prolong words, repeat words, redo phrases,
and abandon phrases, all in great numbers. By traditional theories, these
deviations are irrational. But are they? In those theories, language users are
assumed to have omniscient rationality, with unlimited knowledge and
processing capacities. But if, instead, they are assumed to have bounded
rationality, with limited knowledge and limited processing capacity, many of
these deviations are fully rational and, indeed, necessary for optimal
communication.
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