28.587, Calls: Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-587. Tue Jan 31 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.587, Calls: Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling/France

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:51:19
From: Grégoire Winterstein [gregoire at eduhk.hk]
Subject: Integrating Approaches to Social Meaning

 
Full Title: Integrating Approaches to Social Meaning 
Short Title: IASM 

Date: 24-Jul-2017 - 28-Jul-2017
Location: Toulouse, France 
Contact Person: Grégoire Winterstein
Meeting Email: iasm.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/iasm17 

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

Call Deadline: 07-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

Social meaning in pragmatics has long been studied by considering general
mechanisms of language use to formalize notions such as politeness.

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the study of lexical
elements whose semantics encode a component that directly bears on social
meaning, for example slurs and honorifics. The question of which type of
meaning these components belong to (e.g. conventional implicatures or
presuppositions) and the way these components enter the compositional meaning
of an utterance have also been studied.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from different fields to
open new directions of research in that domain. In particular, we hope to
encourage contact between researchers working on social meaning from (formal)
linguistic, computational, and philosophical  perspectives.

The workshop is part of the 29th European Summer School in Logic, Language,
and Information (ESSLLI 2017), organized in Toulouse.


Final Call for Papers:

The deadline for submissions has been extended to February 7 2017.

This workshop aims to bring together different approaches to social meaning,
with an aim to integrating recent formal semantic work on conventionalized
social meanings with the pragmatic, sociolinguistic and philosophical
literature on the construction of social meanings, as well as theoretical and
empirical aspects of the computational literature. To what extent can we
distinguish conventional from non-conventional means of expressing social
meaning? What are the principles by which such meanings become
conventionalized? How do conventional means of encoding social meaning
interact with the general pragmatic principles that have been argued to
governing social meaning? The workshop will be a platform for researchers with
different backgrounds to discuss the meaning of expressions related to social
aspects, including but not limited to the following themes:

- Honorifics
- Insults, slurs and pejoratives 
- Discourse particles
- Code switching
- Speech acts
- Politeness
- Identity construction
- Gender marking in discourse 
- Argumentation

We invite submissions of abstracts on topics including those above. Abstracts
should be anonymous, 2 pages in length including references and figures and
should be submitted in PDF format by February 7, 2017 via EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iasm17 .

Important Dates:

New deadline for abstract submissions: February 7, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2017
Workshop: July 24-28, 2017

Venue:
 
University of Toulouse (France)

Contact Information:

Inquiries should be directed to iasm.workshop at gmail.com
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/iasm17




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