Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL-2023)

Description

Slurring terms across languages (STAL-2023) is an international and interdisciplinary workshop whose primary aim is to gather work on slurs from languages that have been seldom discussed in the recent philosophical and semantic literature, and in particular, from sign languages and non-Indo-European languages. It aims to bring to light new empirical data and uncover novel interesting phenomena that may have the potential to challenge current theories of slurs. We search for theoretical and empirical studies of slurs from such languages, comparisons with English slurs, as well as wider cross-linguistic approaches. We also welcome developments of extant theories in application to the new data or previously neglected phenomena.

(Note: Information about how to register will be posted on the website soon.)

Topics

slurs, pejoratives, crosslinguistic data, derogatory speech

Program Committee (alphabetical, as of December 2022)

Heather Burnett (CNRS/University of Paris)

Bianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele)

Filippo Domaneschi (University of Genoa)

Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California)

Natalia Karczewska (University of Warsaw)

Jeremy Kuhn (Institut Jean Nicod)

Chang Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Eleonora Orlando (University of Buenos Aires)

Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos (Universoity of Oslo)

Andrés Saab (SADAF/University of Buenos Aires)

Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod)

Dan Zeman (University of Warsaw)

Practical information

The conference will be held at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, 29 rue d'Ulm, Paris, France (salle Théodule Ribot) on June 7-8, 2023. All participants are expected to pay registration fees, which we expect to be around 50€-60€.

Contact

All questions about the workshop should be emailed both to [email protected] and to [email protected]