MORAL LANGUAGE WORKSHOP
December 11, 2023
Organization Committee
Tess Feyen - Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS/ENS/EHESS/PSL & Georgetown University
Alda Mari - Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS/ENS/EHESS/PSL
Paul Portner - Georgetown University
Venue
Institut Jean Nicod
29 rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris
8h45 - 9h00 : Registration, coffee
9h00 - 9h15 : Welcome word
9h15 - 10h00 : David Beaver (The University of Texas at Austin)
“Who is my neighbor?” Morality and the Politics of Language
10h00 - 10h20 : Commentary by Paul Portner (Georgetown University)
10h20 - 10h45 : Q&A and discussion
10h45 - 11h15 : Coffee Break
11h15 - 11h45 : Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (University of Manchester)
Oppression: How Language is Used to Grab Power
11h45 - 12h15 : Aida Ramezani (University of Toronto)
The emergence of the moral foundational lexicon in child language development
12h15 - 13h45 : Lunch Break
13h45 -14h15 : Poster presentations
14h15 - 14h45 : Anouch Bourmayan (Sorbonne University)
Axiologically opposite moral thick terms: a new illustration of the Goldilocks effect
14h45 - 15h15 : Zhuosi Luo (Georgetown University)
Contextual causee interpretation in Teochew attitude-bearing causatives
15h15 - 16h45 : Coffee Break & Poster presentations
16h15 - 16h45 : Jonathan Caleb Kendrick (University of Maryland, College Park)
Default Premise Semantics and 'If P, Ought P'
16h45 - 17h15 : Tess Feyen (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
French moral adjectives : describing norms
17h15 : Thank You and Closing Remarks
19h00 : Dinner
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Poster presentations:
Itai Bassi & Paloma Jeretič, "Modal flavors under ellipsis — ambiguity or underspecification?" - Zentrum for Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Natalia Cziganj, "The Moral Status of Aesthetic Categories in Middle English Vernacular Writings" - Université de Lille
Corentin Denuc, "Argumentativism as a special case of non-cognitivism: towards an argumentativist approach to moral language" - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Lucas Morinière, "Normative agreement and moral language in Jürgen Habermas’ philosophy" - Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Michał B. Paradowski, "Differential Social Norms in L2/L3 vs L1: Beyond the Emotional Explanation" - Université de Varsovie