"What and How Slurs Mean: An Empirical Investigation"

Constant Bonard (University of Bern)

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk by Constant Bonard (Institut Jean Nicod) entitled "What and How Slurs Mean: An Empirical Investigation". The talk will take place online on APRIL 9, 14:30-16:00, and is part of the of STAL network seminar series. If you want to participate, please write to [email protected] for the Zoom link. Below you can find the abstract.

All welcome!

ABSTRACT

In this talk, I will present some early results of an empirical study on the meaning of slurs conducted with Rodrigo Diaz (IFS-CSIC, Madrid). Many hypotheses have been proposed in the philosophical and linguistic literature about the meaning of slurs, both in terms of what information these words communicate and by what linguistic mechanisms they communicate it. Our study aims to test laypeople’s intuitions via questionnaires and to determine the extent to which these intuitions correspond to the hypotheses in question.