The ALEF research group (Cluj-Napoca\, Romania) announces an online talk by Adrian Briciu (West University of Timisoara) entitled "Call and You Can Win the Big Prize!". The talk is part of the group's regular seminar and takes place on Friday\, OCTOBER 22\, 18.00 EEST (Eastern European Summer Time). Please write to \;alef.group.cluj@gmail.com \;or check our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ALEF-100692348488914) if you want to participate. For more information about ALEF\, as well as the schedule for the seminar in the 2021-2022 winter semester\, please visit \;https://sites.google.com/view/alefgroupcluj.
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Here is the abstract of the talk:
Various data from communication that does not occur face to face are taken to pose a problem for Kaplan&rsquo\;s account of indexical expressions. One fix\, inspired by Alan Sidelle&rsquo\;s work\, is the remote utterance view: recording artifacts (writing\, etc.) are means by which speakers perform utterances at a distance\, just as by means of other artifacts one performs other types of remote actions. I will discuss two objections against this view raised by Sorensen and argue that they are unconvincing. The first objection claims that the view gives wrong predictions\, and the second objection claims that remote utterances lead to Moorean paradoxes. I will show that the first objection rests on the wrong type of data (non deictic uses) and that the second objection on a too conservative and implausible view of speech acts. These two objections provide an opportunity to discuss an important methodological issue: how to sieve semantically relevant data from the rough and tumble of everyday language use.
ORGANIZER;CN=Bartunek Nicoletta;CN=Adrian Briciu;CN=Craita Florescu;CN=Adrian Ludusan;CN=Mihai Rusu;CN=Paula Tomi;CN=Dan Zeman: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR