chères collègues, chers collègues,
l’atelier suivant est ouvert à qui est intéressé. il est peut-être préférable de vous faire connaître si vous voulez assister à l’atelier. bien cordialement, Stéphane Lemaire FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT EvalLang-2019: workshop on Evaluative Language Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 6-7 May 2019 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. Guest Program Chair: Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, PSL Research University) Program (alphabetic) Sara Bernstein (University of Notre Dame) Bias-infused evaluative terms Heather Burnett (LLF, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot) A materialist semantics for social meaning Katharina Felka (University of Graz) A deflationary account of moral discourse Nils Franzén (Uppsala University) Evaluative discourse and emotive states of mind John Eriksson (University of Gothenburg) The nature of the evaluative - an expressivist perspective Elsi Kaiser and Catherine Wang (University of Southern California) 'Fact or opinion?': An experimental investigation on the recognition of evaluative content Natasha Korotkova and Pranav Anand (University of Konstanz, UC Santa Cruz) Find Mary Kate McGowan (Wellesley College) On the ubiquity of norm enactment in language use Alba Moreno-Zurita and Eduardo Pérez-Navarro (University of Granada) Slurs and non-propositional content Caleb Perl (CU Boulder) Might ethical debunking rest on a linguistic mistake? Kevin Reuter (University of Bern) Two ways of being normative: thickness vs. dual character Julia Zakkou (Freie Universität Berlin) Levels of evaluation Workshop organized by: Monique Canto-Sperber (CNRS, République des Savoirs, ENS/CdF) Stéphane Lemaire (Université de Rennes) Equipe philosophie morale et normative, Laboratoire République des Savoirs For information regarding the workshop venue, the schedule, or any relevant updates, please visit: http://republique-des-savoirs.fr/?event=3738 <http://republique-des-savoirs.fr/?event=3738> <http://ira.stojanovic.online.fr/> -- Pour toute question, la FAQ de la liste se trouve ici: https://www.vidal-rosset.net/
