The term social meaning identifies the constellation of traits that linguistic forms convey
about the social identity of their users—for example, their demographics, personality and …

No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic
values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They …

In this paper, the authors present a presuppositional account for a class of evaluative terms
that encode both a descriptive and an evaluative component: slurs and thick terms. The …

Contextualism is the view that the extension of perspectival claims (involving eg predicates
of personal taste or epistemic modals) depends on the context of utterance. Relativism is the …

Subjective predicates have two interpretive and distributional characteristics that have
resisted a comprehensive analysis. First, the use of a subjective predicate to describe an …

This paper investigates the subjective interpretation of the comparative forms of certain
gradable adjectives, exploring in particular the hypothesis put forward in several recent …

What is the relation between language, communication, and values? In Slurs and Thick
Terms: When Language Encodes Values, Bianca Cepollaro explores the ways in which …

I call into question a pair of closely related assumptions that are almost universally shared in
the literature on predicates of taste. The assumptions are, first, that predicates of taste–words …

Emoji are widely used, but have received relatively little attention in psycholinguistic
research. Upon encountering a message consisting of both text and emoji, readers …

Evaluative Predicates Page 1 Evaluative Predicates Beyond Fun and Tasty Carla Umbach
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany; Universität Köln, Germany …