CFP: EPITHETS & STAL-2025
Submission deadline: December 10, 2024
Conference date(s):
May 7, 2025 - May 8, 2025
Conference Venue:
University of Genoa
Genova,
Italy
Topic areas
Details
Submission link
https://easychair.org/cfp/EPITHETSSTAL2025
Submission deadline
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Topics
expressives, slurs, pejoratives, amelioratives, valence, crosslinguistic data, derogatory speech
Submission guidelines
We invite submission of abstracts for 50-minute talks (30-minute presentation + 20 minutes for Q&A). Abstracts should be anonymous, the main text should be 2 pages long, with an optional third page for glossed examples, references, or figures (Note: use a third page for examples only when they are non-English examples and are glossed.) Abstracts are due before December 10, 2024, and should be submitted via EasyChair. We expect to notify the authors of their acceptance by early February.
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.)
NOTE: We are aware that mentioning terms like slurs is a controversial issue. We will not, however, take a stance on this matter, but we'd like to ask submitters to be sensitive to the issue.
We especially encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply (both to the general and the special session).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to [email protected]