EPITHETS & STAL-2025

Desctiption

EPITHETS (Explaining Pejoratives In THeoretical and Experimental TermS) is a multi-center project (UniGE, UniMiB, UniSR) that combines theoretical and experimental methods in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology to investigate negative expressives. 

STAL (Slurring Terms Across Languages) is an international and interdisciplinary workshop whose primary aim is to gather work on slurs from languages that have been seldom discussed and less studied phenomena in the recent philosophical and semantic literature, and in particular, from sign languages and non-Indo-European languages.

Invited speakers

Masha Esipova (Bar-Ilan University) and Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California)

Special session

EPITHETS & STAL-2025 will include a special session Valence asymmetries in expressive language, supported by the ERC Advanced Grant VALENCE ASYMMETRIES n°101142133 (https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries). For this session, we invite contributions on issues concerned with the positive, negative, or ambivalent valence of expressive terms. In particular, we encourage: (1) empirical studies (experimental, corpus and field studies) concerned with the valence of expressive terms (incl. slurs, pejoratives, amelioratives); (2) analyses of how the valence of a term can shift (as, for example, in slur reclamation). The ERC Grant can pay for the travel and accommodation of the contributor(s). Please indicate whether you want your contribution to be considered for the special session. (Submissions deemed insufficiently relevant to this session will still be considered for the general session.) We especially encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

Program committee

Bianca Cepollaro (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele), Filippo Domaneschi (DAFIST, Università di Genova), Isidora Stojanovic (Pompeu Fabra University), Dan Zeman (MLAG, University of Porto)

Organizing committee

Alessandra Zappoli (University of Genoa), Veronica Repetti (University of Genoa), Nicolò D'Agruma (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele), Giulia Giunta (University of Milano Bicocca)

Scientific committee

TBA.

Contact

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