Foreword

It is our pleasure to present the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28 – the first-ever SuB to be held by the growing group of semanticists at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany. SuB28 took place at RUB’s Convention Center from September 5-9, 2023. The conference was jointly organized by the RUB Institute for Linguistics, the Linguistic Data Science Lab, the Institute for German Language and Literature, and the Departments of Philosophy I and II. The conference featured a three-day main session (Sept. 6-8) and a one-day special session on ‘The Semantics and Pragmatics of Co-Speech Communication’ (Sept. 5).