34.557, Calls: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics/Georgia

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Subject: 34.557, Calls: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics/Georgia

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 05:25:28
From: Peter Sutton [peterroger.sutton at upf.edu]
Subject: The Semantics of Hidden Meanings

 
Full Title: The Semantics of Hidden Meanings 
Short Title: SHiM 

Date: 18-Sep-2023 - 22-Sep-2023
Location: Telavi, Georgia 
Contact Person: Peter Sutton
Meeting Email: hiddenmeaning2023 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/hidden-meanings/home 

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

Call Deadline: 14-Apr-2023 

Meeting Description:

This workshop will take place as part of the Fourteenth International Tbilisi
Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation (TbILLC 2023). 

Linguistic meanings – whether semantically coded or pragmatically derived –
are typically overt, in the sense that they are available to all competent
speakers of the language. But this is not always the case.  The topic of this
workshop is hidden meanings, by which we mean those meanings that are
available to only some speakers, with certain linguistic or social
backgrounds, or in some contexts of language use. From the perspective of
semantics and pragmatics, the best studied examples of hidden meanings are
dogwhistles, expressions such as inner city or law and order that convey one
meaning to an outgroup, but a second (generally taboo or inflammatory) to a
certain ingroup (Henderson & McCready 2018, 2019, Breitholtz & Cooper 2021).
Dogwhistles do not however exhaust the class of hidden meanings (cf. Quaranto
2022), other examples including double entendres and in-jokes, cants and
secret languages.

Also relevant to the topic are a range of arguably related phenomena for which
the degree to which meanings are hidden may vary. For instance, the effects of
slurs, and some social meanings associated with “ordinary” lexical items, have
a hidden component, in that they depend on a sociocultural background not
shared by all speakers. With the reclamation of slurs in particular, whether
the expression is offensive may depend on the context and whether the
interlocutors are members of the target group (Burnett 2020). Furthermore,
with hints, suggestions and innuendos, as well as the figure of speech of
understatement, there is a sense in which a given message is intended to be
made clearly available, while allowing the speaker to (sometimes) plausibly
deny that that is what they said (e.g., Mazzarella 2021). 

The goal of this workshop is to bring together current research on the broad
range of hidden meanings. We invite contributions on all aspects of the
semantics of hidden meanings, from formal semantic, pragmatic, game-theoretic
and computational perspectives, including but not limited to:

- Dogwhistles
- Slurs
- Hints, suggestions, insinuations and innuendos
- Understatement
- Covert codes, secret languages and cants
- Jokes and puns
- Interlocutor- and situation-dependent social meanings


Call for Papers:

Submission guidelines:
In line with the call for abstracts for the main symposium, abstracts may be
up to 3 pages of A4 (2.5cm margins, 12pt), with an extra page for references.
However, shorter abstracts (ca. two pages) are also welcomed. They should also
be anonymised.

The complete call for papers can be found at our website:
https://sites.google.com/view/hidden-meanings/call-for-abstracts




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