36.1360, Confs: Konstanz 2025 Workshop on Normative Generics (Germany)

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Subject: 36.1360, Confs: Konstanz 2025 Workshop on Normative Generics (Germany)

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Date: 23-Apr-2025
From: Daniel Skibra [daniel.skibra at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Konstanz 2025 Workshop on Normative Generics


Konstanz 2025 Workshop on Normative Generics
Short Title: KNormGens
Theme: Normative generics

Date: 22-May-2025 - 30-May-2025
Location: Konstanz, Germany
Contact: Daniel Skibra
Contact Email: danielskibra at gmail.com
Meeting URL: http://www.knormgens.weebly.com

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

The Konstanz 2025 Workshop on Normative Generics:
Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives of Normative Generics,
Scripts, and Stereotypes.
Normative generics are generic sentences like their descriptive
counterparts, but rather than merely describing a kind of
generalization, their meanings are said to have a distinctively more
normative flavor. How the meanings of normative and descriptive
generics differ, and the source of the normative flavor, is a matter
of intense debate, and further complicates the already challenging
landscape of existing accounts of generics.
The difference between descriptive and normative generics has been
observed in important work going back to the 1970s (cf. especially
Lawler or Burton-Roberts), with other significant work following some
decades later (Carlson, Greenberg, Cohen, a.o.). Work by Leslie
brought the topic to particular prominence in the last decade,
particularly in philosophy.
This workshop addresses open questions in the analysis of normative
generics--pertaining to their semantics, their pragmatics, their
discourse functions, and the kinds of cognition that might underpin
their use. We are particularly interested in how various kinds of
social cognition provide explanatory tools for understanding aspects
of their use (e.g., in recent work by Berio, Hesni, a.o.)
Date: Thursday and Friday, May 22-23, 2025
Location: University of Konstanz
Speakers:
Elin McCready (ICREA; U.A. Barcelona)
Hana Filip (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Gen Eickers (Osnabrück University)
Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam)
Leda Berio (Ruhr University Bochum)
Alda Mari (Institut Jean Nicod/ CNRS)
Samia Hesni (Boston University)
Manfred Krifka (ZAS)
Organized by:
Hadil Karawani (University of Konstanz)
Daniel Skibra (University of Konstanz)
The workshop will be in-person only, but is open for participants who
would like to attend. We ask that you register by May 16th if you
intend to join us.
More information (including information on how to register) is
available on the website:
www.knormgens.weebly.com
This workshop is made possible by a generous grant from the
Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz.



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