Sense and the Making of Sense

International conference "Sense and the Making of Sense" (58–60 Galernaya Street).

The conference is to cover a wide range of issues related to the concept of "meaning." Meaning is revealed dynamically in pragmatics and sociocultural practice as one of the components of meaning in semantics. This approach will allow looking at how meaning functions as well as how it originates. We search for linguists, philosophers, historians, sociologists, culturologists interested in the analysis of the semantics and pragmatics of the languages of their disciplines, and, thus, in the semiotics of their subject areas. The focus of the conference is the narrative practices of text and screen culture, issues of logical and linguistic semantics and pragmatics, argumentation, and rhetoric, meaning generation and its dynamics, cognitive phenomena of semiosis.

Program Committee

• Vitaly Dolgorukov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
• Elena Dragalina-Chernaya (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
• Oksana Goncharko (National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics)
• Gleb Karpov (SPbU)
• Petr Kusly (Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
• Dmitry Leontiev (Moscow State University; Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
• Elena Lisanyuk (SPbU)
• Larisa Muraveva (SPbU)
• Valery Surovtsev (Tomsk State University)

• Natalia Tomova (Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

• Dmitry Zaitsev (Moscow State University)

Topics of Interest Include

• The Making and Dynamics of Sense
• The Phenomenology of Sense
• Sense, Discourse and Action
• Sense and the Making of Sense in the Regulation of Activity
• Existential Senses and Life Contexts
• Narrative practices of making sense
• Sign and Symbol in Sociocultural Practices
• Semiotics and Semantics of Screen Culture and Visual Sphere
• The Theory of Meaning in Historical Development
• Sense as a Unit of Semantics and Pragmatics
• Logical Investigations of Sense and Denotation
• Sense and Denotation in the Practice of Argumentation
• Propositional Attitudes
• Byzantine Logical-Semantic Tradition

Working languages of the conference: Russian, English. The conference will be held in a hybrid format.