***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 31ST!***
\nWe 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:
\n- Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht University)
\n- Justin Khoo (MIT)
\n- Nils Franzé\;n (University of Umeå\;)
\n- Carla Umbach (University of Cologne). \;
\nWe will explore topics surrounding the phenomenon of the &ldquo\;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\, Franzé\;n 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 &lsquo\;consider&rsquo\; (Kennedy &\; Willer 2022)\, or acquaintance inferences triggered by other expressions\, e.g. appearance predicates (Rudolph 2020). \; \; \;
\nWe 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@ub.edu \;by July 31st! Selected papers will be announced by early August. \; \;
\nThis workshop is generously funded by ERC Advanced Grant 'Valence Asymmetries' (nº\; 101142133)\, research project 'New Paths in the Philosophy of Hybrid Representations' PID2023-150569NB-I00\, and grant CEX2021-001169-M (funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). All enquiries should be addressed at asoriaruiz@ub.edu.
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