The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk by \;Matteo Colombo \;and \;Giovanni Cassani \;(Tilburg University) \;entitled \;""In the Thick of It. Do Thick Terms Constitute a Distinctive Class of Affectively-charged Language?" \;The talk will take place online on OCTOBER 14\, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET)\, and is part of the of STAL Seminar series (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to participate\, please write to stalnetwork@gmail.com for the Zoom link. Below you can find the abstract.
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\nABSTRACT:
\nWords like &lsquo\;courageous&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;clever&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;gullible&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;smelly&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;tasty&rsquo\; are examples of what philosophers call thick terms\, which have a significant degree of descriptive content and are evaluatively loaded\, too. Thick terms have been contrasted with purely evaluative terms like &lsquo\;good&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;bad&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;positive&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;negative&rsquo\;\, and descriptive terms like &lsquo\;Dutch&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;tall&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;pink&rsquo\;. Despite the amount of attention thick terms have received in philosophy\, however\, it is unclear whether they constitute a homogeneous class of evaluative terms with characteristic psycholinguistic properties\, and whether the psycholinguistic properties of thick terms are reducible to their &ldquo\;valence norms&rdquo\; (i.e.\, the degree of pleasantness/unpleasantness elicited by a word). In this talk\, we explore these two questions based on computational modelling and behavioural data in English\, Dutch and Italian. Our results indicate that\, compared to other affectively-charged words\, thick terms have characteristic psycholinguistic and information properties irreducible to valence norms.
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