STAL-2023 : Slurring Terms Across Languages | 7-8 June 2023

Location : Ecole Normale Supérieure, 29 rue d’Ulm, Paris, France (salle Théodule Ribot).

Date : June 7-8, 2023

Slurring terms across languages (STAL-23) is an international and interdisciplinary workshop whose primary aim is to gather work on slurs 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. It aims to bring to light new empirical data and uncover novel interesting phenomena that may have the potential to challenge current theories of slurs. We search for theoretical and empirical studies of slurs from such languages, comparisons with English slurs, as well as wider cross-linguistic approaches. We also welcome developments of extant theories in application to the new data or previously neglected phenomena.

Topics : slurs, pejoratives, crosslinguistic data, derogatory speech

Program 

• WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7

10:45-11:00 Welcome

11:00-11:50 Alex Davies, Fred Gregor Rahuoja, Kadi Raal and Anett Pärismaa (University of Tartu)

“An Anti-Immigrant Slur in Soviet Occupied Estonia”

Chair : Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod)

11:50-12:10 Break

12:10-13:00 Nursulu Sagimbayeva (Saarland University)

“Understanding the Kazakh ’Mambet’ : Meaning, Usage, and Prospects for Reclamation”

Chair : Dan Zeman (University of Warsaw)

13:00-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-15:40 Filippo Domaneschi (University of Genoa) & Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos (University of Oslo)

“Anticipating the F***ing Referent : An Eye-tracking Study on the Role of Italian Expressive Adjectives During Sentence Comprehension”

Chair : Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean-Nicod)

15:40-16:20 Esben Nedenskov Petersen (University of Southern Denmark)

“Multimorphemic Danish Slurs with Negative Expressives : A Conventional Implicature Account”

Chair : Dan Zeman (University of Warsaw)

16:20-16:40 Break

16:40-17:20 Chang Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

“Slurs and Lexical Silencing in Chinese”

Chair : Dan Zeman (University of Warsaw)

17:20-18:00 Jonathan Ginzburg (Paris Cité University) and Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (University of Manchester)

"Slurs and Mocking Laughter : A Unified Account via Interactional History"

Chair : Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean-Nicod)

18:00-18:20 Break

18:20-19:00 Bianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele), Simone Sulpizio (University of Milano-Bicocca), Claudia Bianchi (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele) and Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod)

“Slurs in Quarantine”

Chair : Dan Zeman (University of Warsaw)

• THURSDAY, JUNE 8

11:00-11:50 Robin Jeshion (University of South California)

“Owning It : An Expressionist Analysis of Reclamation”

Chair : Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod)

11:50-12:10 Break

12:10-13:00 Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo and Alexandra Arnaiz (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)

“Insults, Slurs, and Expletives in Peruvian Sign Language”

Chair : Dan Zeman (University of Warsaw)

13:00-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-15:50 Gerhard Schaden and Luca Gasparri (University of Lille)

“Slurring without Nouns”

Chair : Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod)

15:50-16:10 Break

16:10-17:00 Una Stojnic (Princeton University) and Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University)

“Slurring Articulations”

Chair : Dan Zeman (University of Warsaw)

Program Committee

• Heather Burnett
• Bianca Cepollaro
• Filippo Domaneschi
• Elsi Kaiser
• Natalia Karczewska
• Jeremy Kuhn
• Chang Liu
• Elin McCready
• Eleonora Orlando
• Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos
• Andrés Saab
• Isidora Stojanovic
• Dan Zeman

Organizing committee

• Isidora Stojanovic
• Dan Zeman

Contact

isidora.stojanovic@cnrs.fr and to danzeman@gmail.com.