STAL Seminar

Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) is an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms in general, 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. Its main aim is to bring to light new empirical data and uncover novel interesting phenomena that may have the potential to challenge current theories. Empirical studies of the expressions mentioned from such languages, comparisons with English slurs, as well as wider cross-linguistic approaches and developments of extant theories in application to the new data or previously neglected phenomena are encouraged too.

The network's coordinators are Isidora Stojanovic (Pompeu Fabra University/CNRS-Institut Jean Nicod)) & Dan Zeman (University of Porto). More information about the network and its activities can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork. To contact the network coordinators, please write to [email protected].

The STAL Seminar features monthly, online talks by researchers tackling issues related to the study of slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms in general, from less studied languages. The meetings in the 2024-2025 academic year take place on MONDAYS, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET). The schedule of the seminar is the following (to be updated):

- SEPTEMBER 23, 2024: Bianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele), Filippo Domaneschi (University of Genoa) and Isidora Stojanovic (Pompeu Fabra University/CNRS), "Slurs across Syntactic Realizations. Experimental Evidence on Predicative vs. Ad-nominal Uses of Slurs"

- OCTOBER 14, 2024: Matteo Colombo and Giovanni Cassani (Tilburg University), "In the Thick of It. Do Thick Terms Constitute a Distinctive Class of Affectively-charged Language?"

- NOVEMBER 4, 2024: Nicolás Lo Guercio (CONICET/University of Buenos Aires), "Maximize Expressivity!"

- DECEMBER 16, 2024: Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) and Christopher Davies (University of the Ryukyus), TBA

- JANUARY 20, 2025: Kristen Syrett (Rutgers University), "How Language Supports the Acquisition of Predicates of Mental States and Emotions"

- FEBRUARY 10, 2025: Thomas Wier (Free University of Tbilisi), TBA

- MARCH 2025, 2025: Claire Horisk (University of Missouri), TBA

- JUNE 2025: Mingya Liu (Humboldt University Berlin), TBA

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