Communitarian Semantics

About

In the past 15 years, the study of linguistic expressions with meanings keyed to social domains has taken off in linguistics and philosophy. Empirical domains include slurs, gendered expressions, honorifics, discourse markers, and sociolinguistic indexicals, among others; phenomena include epistemic injustice, standpoints, argumentation, and dogwhistling, among others. The aim of this course is twofold: first, to introduce recent developments in this area to students together with the technical tools, both formal and computational, that have been used to analyze them, and, second, to give a birds-eye view of the study of meaning that situates work in this area in the broader semantic landscape. The lecturers have worked on all the topics discussed and are known experts in the area.

Course leader

Elin Mccready and Grégoire Winterstein

Target group

Students

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