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


Zoom link registration HERE

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