Three kinds of meaning are considered: expressive meaning, social meanings in the sense of indexation of personas, and the generation of affect. She presents a characterization of each meaning type together with the kind of formal analysis that’s been proposed and some empirical motivation: slurs and honorifics (for expressive content), social personas as indexed in speech overtly or covertly (via dogwhistling), and the interpretation of literary text.
This is a joint event between ILN's Departmental linguistics seminars and IFIKK's The future of pragmatics lecture series.