35.2771, Confs: 19th International Pragmatics Conference: Panel 5: Toxic Language Across Time and Space

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Date: 05-Oct-2024
From: Lucien Brown [lucien.brown at monash.edu]
Subject: None


19th International Pragmatics Conference: Panel 5: Toxic Language
Across Time and Space
Short Title: IPrA

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: The University of Queensland, Australia
Contact: Lucien Brown
Contact Email: lucien.brown at monash.edu
Meeting URL: https://ipra2025.exordo.com/login

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

In this panel, we analyse various linguistic manifestations of
societal conflicts via the concept of “toxic language.” We welcome
contributions that focus on hatred, discriminations, cyber bullying
and other linguistic aggressions.

In the past decade, a variety of societal conflicts of a linguistic
nature have risen in prominence, including but not restricted to,
cyberbullying, hatred, discrimination, microaggressions, profanity,
sexual harassment, xenophobia, and gossiping. These conflicts have
attracted keen attention from pragmaticians interested in
impoliteness, disaffiliation and linguistic aggression (e.g.,
Assimakopoulos, Baider & Miller 2017; Garcés-Conejos Blitvich &
Sifianou 2017; Kádár, Haugh & Chang 2013).

In this panel, we analyse various linguistic manifestations of
societal conflicts via the concept of “toxic language.” This term
refers to language that can be seen as ‘rude’, ‘disrespectful’,
‘offensive’, ‘hurtful’, ‘aggressive’, ‘inappropriate’, ‘derogatory’,
‘obscene’, ‘abusive’, and/or ‘hateful’ (Dixon et al, 2018; Kavaz et
al., 2021; Palmeret al., 2020; Sap et al., 2019). The panel focuses on
the emergence, development and evaluation of toxic language as it is
used in naturally occurring contexts, spanning face to face, digital
and written contexts, as well as recent human-AI interactions.
“Language” here encompasses multimodal features of communication,
which may be crucial in the expression of toxic meanings. Our panel
aims to advance our understanding of the linguistic specifics of toxic
language, as well as the toxic meanings that seemingly non-toxic
language can create. We will make a cross-disciplinary contribution to
debates regarding the detection of toxic language, the development of
moderating measures, and the advancement of ethical and equitable AI.

A central aim of our panel is to extend discussion of toxic language
across time and space, given that the majority of research on
linguistic aggression and impoliteness to date has investigated
contemporary Anglophone and Western European cultures. Whereas we
welcome abstracts from all lingua-cultures, we are particularly
interested in receiving submissions from scholars working with data
from East Asia and the Global South, as well as submissions analysing
changes in toxic language from a diachronic or developmental
perspective. As a whole, the panel looks to offer indigenous and
transnational examination of the various spatially and temporally
situated forms of toxic language.



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