Social meaning in pragmatics has long been studied by considering general mechanisms of language use to formalize notions such as politeness. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the study of lexical elements whose semantics encode a component that directly bears on social meaning, for example slurs and honorifics. The question of which type of meaning these components belong to (e.g. conventional implicatures or presuppositions) and the way these components enter the compositional meaning of an utterance have also been studied. In addition, the last couple of years saw a surge of studies related to social meaning stemming from different fields.
The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from these different horizons to open new directions of research in that domain. In particular, we hope to encourage contact between researchers working on social meaning from formal linguistic, sociolinguistic, computational, and philosophical perspectives.
The workshop will be a platform for researchers with different backgrounds to discuss the meaning of expressions related to social aspects, including, but not limited to the following themes:
The workshop is part of the 31st European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2019), organized in Riga:
Room 12, 11:00-12:30
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Thursday
We invite submissions of abstracts on topics including those above. Abstracts should be anonymous and 2 pages in length including references and figures and should be submitted in PDF format by March 25, 2019 via EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iasm2
Contact us at iasm.workshop@gmail.com