31.574, Calls: English; App Ling, Ling Theories, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics/Slovakia

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Subject: 31.574, Calls: English; App Ling, Ling Theories, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics/Slovakia

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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:35:34
From: Dan Zeman [danczeman at gmail.com]
Subject: Value in Language

 
Full Title: Value in Language 

Date: 09-Jun-2020 - 10-Jun-2020
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia 
Contact Person: Dan Zeman
Meeting Email: danczeman at gmail.com
Web Site: https://danzeman.weebly.com/value-in-language.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

Many expressions in natural language are used to convey how we value parts of
the world - things, events, actions, people. We use them to express our own
opinions, but they also help us gain insight into what others think. Value and
valuing is a crucial part of our lives: it guides us into action, it
categorizes the world around us, it shapes our identity.
The workshop focuses on issues in the semantics of natural language
expressions that are used to express value and valuing. Evaluative expressions
(moral terms like ''good'', ''bad'' or ''ought to'', aesthetic adjectives like
''beautiful'', ''ugly'', ''balanced'', predicates of taste like ''tasty'',
''disgusting'', ''boring'', thick terms like ''courageous'' or ''generous''),
slurs like ''boche'' and expressives like ''damn'' are among the expressions
that involve, in some way or another, valuing and value.
Among the questions this workshop aims at tackling are the following:
- How do languages encode value (if at all)?
- Should value be part of the semantics of a language or of pragmatics (or
neither)?
- What are the best arguments for the main approaches to these expressions in
the literature?
- How to accommodate non-orthodox uses of the expressions at stake (e.g.,
non-derogatory uses of slurs)?
- How is disagreement involving the expressions in question to be accounted
for?
- What is the connection between the semantics of these expressions and the
social milieus in which they are used?
- How are the most prominent linguistic features of those expressions (e.g.,
the ''hyper-projectivity'' of slurs) to be treated?

Invited speakers: 
The following philosophers have confirmed their presence at the workshop:
Bianca Cepollaro (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University)
Stefano Predelli (University of Nottingham)
Pekka Väyrynen (University of Leeds)
 
Organization: 
The workshop is organized by Dan Zeman, as part of a S.A.I.A. Initiative
Project (''Slovak-Austrian Philosophy of Language Network'', no.
2019-10-15-007) and the help of the Department of Analytic Philosophy, Slovak
Academy of Sciences.


Call for Papers: 

Extended abstracts (max. 1000 words, excluding references) addressing the
issues mentioned above (but also others that might be of interest) should be
send to danczeman at gmail.com by February 20. Please write ''ViL Workshop'' as
the subject of the email. The abstract should be anonymized for blind
refereeing, and the email should contain information about the submission
(name, affiliation, talk title). Up to 10 abstracts will be selected for
presentation. Each presentation will last 45 minutes (30 the talk and 15
discussion). Selected papers from the workshops will be published in a special
issue of Organon F (call for papers following soon!).




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