27.3871, Calls: Cog Sci, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling/USA

Fri Sep 30 16:01:07 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3871. Fri Sep 30 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.3871, Calls: Cog Sci, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling/USA

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry,
                                   Robert Coté, Michael Czerniakowski)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
                   25 years of LINGUIST List!
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <ken at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:00:46
From: Chris Kennedy [subjectivity2017 at gmail.com]
Subject: Subjectivity in Language and Thought

Full Title: Subjectivity in Language and Thought 

Date: 19-May-2017 - 20-May-2017
Location: Chicago, IL, USA 
Contact Person: Chris Kennedy
Meeting Email: subjectivity2017 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://subjectivity2017.uchicago.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 02-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Chicago
will host a two-day workshop, May 19-20, 2017, that aims to bring together
recent innovations and novel perspectives on the phenomenon of subjectivity in
language and thought. The workshop is funded by the Neubauer Collegium for
Culture and Society.

Expressions whose meaning have a distinctly subjective dimension, most notably
predicates of personal taste, have received increased attention by linguists
and philosophers in the last decade or so. In addition to the extensively
debated phenomenon of ''faultless disagreement,'' the fact that across
languages certain attitude verbs such as English 'find' require their
complement to be subjective in a distinct way raises unique conceptual and
empirical challenges to a comprehensive theory of natural language meaning.
Several researchers have explored issues about subjective expressions beyond
their significance for the relativism-vs-contextualism debate that is so
prominent in linguistics and philosophy of language, including: the types of
subjective meanings that natural languages encode, the subjective dimensions
of modality, and the evidential dimension of subjective predicates and
attitude verbs. The aim of this workshop is to continue this trend by bringing
together innovative perspectives on subjective language and thought in an
interdisciplinary setting.

Invited Speakers:

Elizabeth Coppock  (University of Gothenburg)
Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
Daniel Lassiter (Stanford University)
Alda Mari (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, CNRS)
Dilip Ninan (Tufts University)

Call for Papers: 
Subjectivity in Language and Thought

The Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Chicago
will host a two-day workshop, May 19-20, 2017, that aims to bring together
recent innovations and novel perspectives on the phenomenon of subjectivity in
language and thought. The workshop is funded by the Neubauer Collegium for
Culture and Society.

We invite abstracts for 30-minute talks (plus 15 mins discussion) in any area
related to the workshop topics. We especially encourage submissions that
broaden or challenge existing perspectives on the phenomenon of subjectivity
in linguistics or philosophy, for instance, through novel data,
cross-linguistic studies, experimental or corpus-based work, or
non-traditional frameworks and methodologies.

Abstract Guidelines:

1. Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format with filename PaperTitle.pdf
(e.g., Subjectivity_and_Discourse_Function.pdf).

2. The main text should be at most 3 pages (US Letter or A4) in length,
including examples, with an optional fourth page for references. The abstract
should use a 12pt font and 1 inch margins (for US Letter) or 3 cm margins (for
A4) on all four sides. The abstract must be submitted as a single PDF file.
These limitations will be strictly enforced. In addition to the intellectual
merit of the abstract, clarity and readability will also be taken into account
in reviewing.

3. Abstracts must be anonymous. Author name(s) must not appear on the abstract
or file name. Please include the name and  author information in the email of
submission.

4. Please submit your abstract by sending it to:   subjectivity2017 at gmail.com.

5. All abstracts must be submitted by January 2, 2017 at 11:59 PM CST.

6. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per
author, or two joint abstracts per author.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: January 2, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: Early February, 2017
Workshop date: May 19-20, 2017

For questions, please contact us at:  subjectivity2017 at gmail.com

Workshop website:  http://subjectivity2017.uchicago.edu

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

        Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3871	
----------------------------------------------------------