Names, Demonstratives, and Expressives

September 14, 2014 - September 17, 2014
Department of philosophy, University of Milan

Gargnano
Italy

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Speakers:

Claudia Bianchi
San Raffaele University
Ernest Lepore
Rutgers University
Josep Macià
University of Barcelona
Stefano Predelli
University of Nottingham

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Claudia Bianchi (San Raffaele, Milan)

Ernest Lepore (Rutgers)

Stefano Predelli (Nottingham)

Josep Maciá (Barcelona)

 

Names and demonstratives are the two main tools through which language hooks to the world. Both linguists and philosophers have been developing formal frameworks to model the relationship between contextual elements and such referential mechanisms. Lately, attention has been driven to the possibility of applying formal modeling also to the study of the expressive aspects of linguistic meaning. The aim of “Names, Demonstratives, and Expressives” is to attract scholars interested in the interface between those two aspects, from the perspective of different fields — such as linguistics, philosophy, psychology and logics — and to facilitate the interaction among them.

 

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— Expressive mechanism in semantics and pragmatics

— Colouring and non truth-conditional aspects of meaning

— Slurs and pejorative speech

— Nicknames and attributive uses of names

— Politically Correct and censorship 

— Non-literal uses of language

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Organizers:

Sandro Zucchi (University of Milan)

Clotilde Calabi (University of Milan)

Elisa Paganini (University of Milan)

Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan)

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