Integrating Approaches to Social Meaning 2

Overview

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:

honorifics
insults, slurs and pejoratives
discourse particles
code switching
lexical choice
directness speech acts
politeness
identity construction
gender marking in discourse
argumentation
social meaning in computational models
neurological profile of social meaning expressions

The workshop is part of the 31st European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2019), organized in Riga:

http://esslli2019.folli.info/

Programme

Room 12, 11:00-12:30

Monday

Chris Davis, Elin McCready, Grégoire Winterstein, Introduction to Social Meaning - Computational approaches to social meaning slides

Tuesday

Ellen Breitholtz and Robin Cooper, Integrating personae in a TTR account of interaction
Ai Taniguichi, On social meaning, non-redundancy, and cats slides

Wednesday

Chungmin Lee and Darcy Sperlich, Factivity in its relation to politeness: hierarchical structures matter slides
Bianka Takaoka, The Social Value of Insults

Thursday

Elin McCready, Trust, Ideology and Social Meaning slides
Roundtable

Call for papers

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

Important dates

March 15 March 25: submission deadline (extended)
May 1: author notification
August 12-16: workshop

Scientific Committee

Christopher Davis (organizer)
Elin McCready (organizer)
Grégoire Winterstein (organizer)
Eric Acton
Andrea Beltrama
Claire Beyssade
Heather Burnett
Elisabeth Camp
Bianca Cepollaro
Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini
Stanley Donahoo
Julie Hunter
Regine Lai
Zoe Luk
Alda Mari
Christopher Potts
Maribel Romero
Peter Sells
Ai Taniguchi
Henk Zeevat
Malte Zimmermann