30.1659, Confs: Philosophy of Language, Semantics/France

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Subject: 30.1659, Confs: Philosophy of Language, Semantics/France

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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 23:47:17
From: Isidora Stojanovic [isidora.stojanovic.nicod at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on Evaluative Language

 
Workshop on Evaluative Language 
Short Title: EvalLang-2019 

Date: 06-May-2019 - 07-May-2019 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Isidora Stojanovic 
Contact Email: isidora.stojanovic at ens.fr 
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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