CFP: Names, Demonstratives, and Expressives
Submission deadline: April 27, 2014
Conference date(s):
September 14, 2014 - September 17, 2014
Conference Venue:
Department of philosophy, University of Milan
Gargnano,
Italy
Topic areas
Details
Invited Speakers
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.
Themes and questions:
— 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
Submission
A short abstract of 300 words, and a long abstract of no more than 2000 car. must be submitted to [email protected] with object “SUBMISSION GARGNANO EXPRESSIVES CONFERENCE”. The abstracts have to be prepared for blind referee and accompanied by a cover sheet with title of the submitted paper, name, affiliation, and contact detail of the author.
Deadline for submission is 27 April. Notification will be sent by 31 May.
Accepted contributors will be granted accommodation in Palazzo Feltrinelli (the conference venue) at a fee of around €210 (lunches and dinner included).
If you want to attend the conference, please send [email protected] a mail. Room in the palazzo is limited, but we are happy to accommodate as many attendants as possible.
Organizers:
Sandro Zucchi (University of Milan)
Clotilde Calabi (University of Milan)
Elisa Paganini (University of Milan)
Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan)