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 — offered from a variety of perspectives (such as metaethics, philosophy of language, psycho- and socio- linguistics, and cognitive psychology — of various systematic ways in which language is used to express emotions and other attitudes — through, e.g. slurs, pejoratives, laudatives, exclamatives, and evaluative terms.
Information about the workshop can be found at the workshop webpage. You may find the schedule, abstracts and information about visiting Storrs at the workshop page. Registration for the workshop, which is free, but required, is available by following this link. The workshop is open to the public and ECOM encourages attendance by researchers in the cognitive sciences from nearby institutes to attend.
Workshop Schedule:
Thursday, November 19th - Homer Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference Room:
2:00-2:25PM Registration
2:25-2:30PM Welcome
2:30-3:45PM Timothy Jay (Psychology, Massachusetts College) - "Doing Research with Taboo Words"
4:00-4:40PM Trip Glazer (Philosophy, Georgetown) - "Contemptuous Speech"
4:40-5:20PM Helen L. Daly (Philosophy, Colorado College) - "Silently Insulting"
5:30-6:45PM Ljiljana Progovac (Linguistics, Wayne State) - "Expressive Language in the Evolution of Grammar"
6:45-7:15PM Reception
Friday, November 20th - Homer Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference Room:
9:30-10:00AM Breakfast - Coffee & Bagels
10:00-11:15AM Mark Richard (Philosophy, Harvard) - "Why Do We Care About Slurs?"
11:30-12:10PM Bianca Cepollaro (SNS & IJN) & Tristan Thommen (IJN) - "What's Wrong with the Truth-Conditional Accounts of Slurs?"
12:10-12:50PM Andrew Morgan (Philosophy, Virginia) - "Hybrid Speech Acts: A Theory of Normative Language that 'Has it Both Ways'"
12:50-2:00PM Lunch! (sandwiches, etc. provided)
2:00-3:15PM Dean Pettit - "Objectivity and Emotion"
3:30-4:10PM John Voiklis (CPS, Brown)* - "Building a Moral Lexicon to Study (and Implement) Moral Communication
4:10-4:50PM Laura Niemi (Psychology, Harvard)** - "Implicit Causality and Moral Inference"
5:15-6:30PM Anna Papafragou (Psychology, Delaware) - "Evidentiality Across Languages"
7:00PM Workshop Dinner at Chang's Garden - REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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 — offered from a variety of perspectives (such as metaethics, philosophy of language, psycho- and socio- linguistics, and cognitive psychology — of various systematic ways in which language is used to express emotions and other attitudes — through, e.g. slurs, pejoratives, laudatives, exclamatives, and evaluative terms.
Information about the workshop can be found at the workshop webpage. You may find the schedule, abstracts and information about visiting Storrs at the workshop page. Registration for the workshop, which is free, but required, is available by following this link. The workshop is open to the public and ECOM encourages attendance by researchers in the cognitive sciences from nearby institutes to attend.
Workshop Schedule:
Thursday, November 19th - Homer Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference Room:
2:00-2:25PM Registration
2:25-2:30PM Welcome
2:30-3:45PM Timothy Jay (Psychology, Massachusetts College) - "Doing Research with Taboo Words"
4:00-4:40PM Trip Glazer (Philosophy, Georgetown) - "Contemptuous Speech"
4:40-5:20PM Helen L. Daly (Philosophy, Colorado College) - "Silently Insulting"
5:30-6:45PM Ljiljana Progovac (Linguistics, Wayne State) - "Expressive Language in the Evolution of Grammar"
6:45-7:15PM Reception
Friday, November 20th - Homer Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference Room:
9:30-10:00AM Breakfast - Coffee & Bagels
10:00-11:15AM Mark Richard (Philosophy, Harvard) - "Why Do We Care About Slurs?"
11:30-12:10PM Bianca Cepollaro (SNS & IJN) & Tristan Thommen (IJN) - "What's Wrong with the Truth-Conditional Accounts of Slurs?"
12:10-12:50PM Andrew Morgan (Philosophy, Virginia) - "Hybrid Speech Acts: A Theory of Normative Language that 'Has it Both Ways'"
12:50-2:00PM Lunch! (sandwiches, etc. provided)
2:00-3:15PM Dean Pettit - "Objectivity and Emotion"
3:30-4:10PM John Voiklis (CPS, Brown)* - "Building a Moral Lexicon to Study (and Implement) Moral Communication
4:10-4:50PM Laura Niemi (Psychology, Harvard)** - "Implicit Causality and Moral Inference"
5:15-6:30PM Anna Papafragou (Psychology, Delaware) - "Evidentiality Across Languages"
7:00PM Workshop Dinner at Chang's Garden - REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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 — offered from a variety of perspectives (such as metaethics, philosophy of language, psycho- and socio- linguistics, and cognitive psychology — of various systematic ways in which language is used to express emotions and other attitudes — through, e.g. slurs, pejoratives, laudatives, exclamatives, and evaluative terms.
Information about the workshop can be found at the workshop webpage. You may find the schedule, abstracts and information about visiting Storrs at the workshop page. Registration for the workshop, which is free, but required, is available by following this link. The workshop is open to the public and ECOM encourages attendance by researchers in the cognitive sciences from nearby institutes to attend.
Workshop Schedule:
Thursday, November 19th - Homer Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference Room:
2:00-2:25PM Registration
2:25-2:30PM Welcome
2:30-3:45PM Timothy Jay (Psychology, Massachusetts College) - "Doing Research with Taboo Words"
4:00-4:40PM Trip Glazer (Philosophy, Georgetown) - "Contemptuous Speech"
4:40-5:20PM Helen L. Daly (Philosophy, Colorado College) - "Silently Insulting"
5:30-6:45PM Ljiljana Progovac (Linguistics, Wayne State) - "Expressive Language in the Evolution of Grammar"
6:45-7:15PM Reception
Friday, November 20th - Homer Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference Room:
9:30-10:00AM Breakfast - Coffee & Bagels
10:00-11:15AM Mark Richard (Philosophy, Harvard) - "Why Do We Care About Slurs?"
11:30-12:10PM Bianca Cepollaro (SNS & IJN) & Tristan Thommen (IJN) - "What's Wrong with the Truth-Conditional Accounts of Slurs?"
12:10-12:50PM Andrew Morgan (Philosophy, Virginia) - "Hybrid Speech Acts: A Theory of Normative Language that 'Has it Both Ways'"
12:50-2:00PM Lunch! (sandwiches, etc. provided)
2:00-3:15PM Dean Pettit - "Objectivity and Emotion"
3:30-4:10PM John Voiklis (CPS, Brown)* - "Building a Moral Lexicon to Study (and Implement) Moral Communication
4:10-4:50PM Laura Niemi (Psychology, Harvard)** - "Implicit Causality and Moral Inference"
5:15-6:30PM Anna Papafragou (Psychology, Delaware) - "Evidentiality Across Languages"
7:00PM Workshop Dinner at Chang's Garden - REGISTRATION REQUIREDThe 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 — offered from a variety of perspectives (such as metaethics, philosophy of language, psycho- and socio- linguistics, and cognitive psychology — of various systematic ways in which language is used to express emotions and other attitudes — through, e.g. slurs, pejoratives, laudatives, exclamatives, and evaluative terms.
Information about the workshop can be found at the workshop webpage. You may find the schedule, abstracts and information about visiting Storrs at the workshop page. Registration for the workshop, which is free, but required, is available by following this link. The workshop is open to the public and ECOM encourages attendance by researchers in the cognitive sciences from nearby institutes to attend.
Workshop Schedule:
Thursday, November 19th - Homer Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference Room:
2:00-2:25PM Registration
2:25-2:30PM Welcome
2:30-3:45PM Timothy Jay (Psychology, Massachusetts College) - "Doing Research with Taboo Words"
4:00-4:40PM Trip Glazer (Philosophy, Georgetown) - "Contemptuous Speech"
4:40-5:20PM Helen L. Daly (Philosophy, Colorado College) - "Silently Insulting"
5:30-6:45PM Ljiljana Progovac (Linguistics, Wayne State) - "Expressive Language in the Evolution of Grammar"
6:45-7:15PM Reception
Friday, November 20th - Homer Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference Room:
9:30-10:00AM Breakfast - Coffee & Bagels
10:00-11:15AM Mark Richard (Philosophy, Harvard) - "Why Do We Care About Slurs?"
11:30-12:10PM Bianca Cepollaro (SNS & IJN) & Tristan Thommen (IJN) - "What's Wrong with the Truth-Conditional Accounts of Slurs?"
12:10-12:50PM Andrew Morgan (Philosophy, Virginia) - "Hybrid Speech Acts: A Theory of Normative Language that 'Has it Both Ways'"
12:50-2:00PM Lunch! (sandwiches, etc. provided)
2:00-3:15PM Dean Pettit - "Objectivity and Emotion"
3:30-4:10PM John Voiklis (CPS, Brown)* - "Building a Moral Lexicon to Study (and Implement) Moral Communication
4:10-4:50PM Laura Niemi (Psychology, Harvard)** - "Implicit Causality and Moral Inference"
5:15-6:30PM Anna Papafragou (Psychology, Delaware) - "Evidentiality Across Languages"
7:00PM Workshop Dinner at Chang's Garden - REGISTRATION REQUIRED
