36.2144, Calls: Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value (Spain)

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Subject: 36.2144, Calls: Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value (Spain)

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Date: 11-Jul-2025
From: Andrés Soria Ruiz [asoriaruiz at ub.edu]
Subject: Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value


Full Title: Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value

Date: 06-Nov-2025 - 07-Nov-2025
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contact Person: Andrés Soria Ruiz
Meeting Email: asoriaruiz at ub.edu

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

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2025

Call for Papers:
We invite contributions to the upcoming workshop Acquaintance,
Familiarity & Value, to take place at the University of Barcelona on
November 6-7th, 2025. Invited speakers include:
- Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht University)
- Justin Khoo (MIT)
- Nils Franzén (University of Umeå)
- Carla Umbach (University of Cologne).
We will explore topics surrounding the phenomenon of the “acquaintance
inference" of aesthetic language. The use of aesthetic language to
describe an object (e.g., predicates of personal taste, aesthetic
adjectives, subjective attitude verbs) invites the inference that the
speaker has first-hand acquaintance with that object. E.g., if I tell
you that The Birth of Venus is a wonderful painting, you are likely to
assume that I have seen The Birth of Venus. This seemingly trivial
observation has intrigued linguists, aestheticians, and philosophers
of language, especially in the last 10+ years (Pearson 2013, Ninan
2014, Franzén 2018, Anand & Korotkova 2018, Khoo 2024). Recently,
researchers have turned their attention to other phenomena with
similar features, e.g., the "practical opinionatedness" inference of
moral predicates (Willer & Kennedy 2020), the familiarity inference
triggered by verbs like ‘consider’ (Kennedy & Willer 2022), or
acquaintance inferences triggered by other expressions, e.g.
appearance predicates (Rudolph 2020).
We call for contributions touching upon these and related topics, such
as: the semantics & pragmatics of subjective, evaluative, and
metalinguistic expressions/language, multidimensionality,
expressivism, and faultless disagreement. Please send a 1-page
abstract to asoriaruiz at ub.edu by July 31st. Selected papers will be
announced by early August.
This workshop is sponsored by Beatriu de Pinós grant BP 2022 00047,
research project PID2023-150569NB-I00, and grant CEX2021-001169-M
(funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). All enquiries should be
addressed at asoriaruiz at ub.edu



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