LINGUIST List 30.1659
Tue Apr 16 2019
Confs: Philosophy of Language, Semantics/France
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Date: 12-Apr-2019
From: Isidora Stojanovic <isidora.stojanovic.nicod
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Subject: Workshop on Evaluative Language
E-mail this message to a friend Workshop on Evaluative Language
Short Title: EvalLang-2019
Date: 06-May-2019 - 07-May-2019
Location: Paris, France
Contact: Isidora Stojanovic
Contact Email:
< click here to access email > Meeting URL:
http://republique-des-savoirs.fr/?event=3738
Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Semantics
Meeting Description:
Language is replete with evaluative expressions; 'good', 'bad', 'terrible', 'awesome' are such expressions par excellence. In addition to such all-purpose evaluatives, many expressions with rich descriptive contents also convey evaluation. Aesthetic, moral and epistemic vocabulary largely consists of thick terms such as 'harmonious', 'cruel' or 'justified', which not only serve to describe things but also to say something positive or negative about the things so described. What is more, many words that are not evaluative in virtue of their meaning can nevertheless be used to convey evaluation. For example, to characterize a proposal as ''ambitious'' or ''intense'' can convey something good or bad about it, depending on the context. One could even conjecture that any given expression may be used, in a suitable context, as an evaluative device.
How a piece of discourse or text gets to be endowed with evaluative content is a complex and hotly debated issue. When does evaluation reside in semantic content? When is it a matter of pragmatics? How do the various pragmatic mechanisms (presupposition, implicature, free enrichment, intonation, and so on) enable language to express and convey values? Questions such as these are receiving a growing interest in philosophy of language, linguistics, aesthetics, meta-ethics and value-theory. Last but not least, the ubiquity of evaluative content in language has serious practical implications. Among other, it underlies phenomena such as propaganda, hate speech, stereotyping and verbal oppression.
This workshop brings together researchers from different horizons, with the aim of gaining a better understanding of evaluative language and its complexities.
Program:
Monday 6 May 2019
11:00-12:00:
Julia Zakkou (Freie Universität Berlin)
Levels of evaluation
12:00-12:20: coffee break
12:20-13:00:
John Eriksson (University of Gothenburg)
The nature of the evaluative - an expressivist perspective
13:00-15:00: lunch break
15:00-15:40:
Katharina Felka (University of Graz)
A deflationary account of moral discourse
15:40-16:20:
Nils Franzén (Uppsala University)
Evaluative discourse and emotive states of mind
16:20-16:50: tea break
16:50-17:30:
Natasha Korotkova and Pranav Anand (University of Konstanz, UC Santa Cruz)
Find
17:30-18:10:
Elsi Kaiser and Catherine Wang (University of Southern California)
'Fact or opinion?': An experimental investigation on the recognition of evaluative content
Tuesday 7 May 2019
10:15-11:15:
Heather Burnett (LLF, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot)
A materialist semantics for social meaning
11:15-11:40: coffee break
11:40-12:20:
Alba Moreno-Zurita and Eduardo Pérez-Navarro (University of Granada)
Slurs and non-propositional content
12:20-13:00:
Sara Bernstein (University of Notre Dame)
Bias-infused evaluative terms
13:00-15:00: lunch break
15:00-16:00:
Mary Kate McGowan (Wellesley College)
On the ubiquity of norm enactment in language use
16:00-16:20: tea break
16:20-17:00:
Kevin Reuter (University of Bern)
Two ways of being normative: thickness vs. dual character
17:00-17:40:
Caleb Perl (CU Boulder)
Might ethical debunking rest on a linguistic mistake?
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