Ship Street Lecture Theatre, Jesus College, Oxford
Elisabeth Camp, Professor of Philosophy (Rutgers University): 'Nicknames as Tools for Face and Frame'
Abstract: Like other names, nicknames function to identify and track individuals. But they also mark and modulate the social "places" of speaker, addressee and referent; and they offer intuitively fitting heuristics for interpreting their referents. These sociolinguistic functions matter for explaining nicknames' contributions to communicative dynamics, in ways that challenge orthodox categories in our theories of meaning.
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Daniel Altshuler (Linguistics) & Ofra Magidor (Philosophy)
