The Expression\, Communication\, and Origins of Meaning (ECOM) Research Group is pleased to announce that it will be hosting its second annual interdisciplinary workshop \;this November on "Expressive Language: Semantics\, Pragmatics\, and Origins"\, to be held November 19-20\, 2015 at the University of Connecticut.
The workshop will explore theoretical analyses &mdash\; offered from a variety of perspectives (such as metaethics\, philosophy of language\, psycho- and socio- linguistics\, and cognitive psychology) &mdash\; of systematic ways in which language is used to express emotions and other attitudes\, through\, e.g. slurs\, pejoratives\, laudatives\, exclamatives\, and evaluative terms.
Our invited speakers are:
We also invite abstracts of short papers by junior researchers (25-30mins) on the topics of the conference. Please submit abstracts in PDF format to Nathan Kellen by October 20th. \;(Authors of accepted papers will be notified during the following week.) \;