CFP: EPITHETS & STAL-2025

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.) We especially encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

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.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to [email protected]