35.2820, FYI: STAL Seminar, OCTOBER 14, 14.30: Matteo Colombo and Giovanni Cassani, "In the Thick of It. Do Thick Terms Constitute a Distinctive Class of Affectively-charged Language?"

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Subject: 35.2820, FYI: STAL Seminar, OCTOBER 14, 14.30: Matteo Colombo and Giovanni Cassani, "In the Thick of It. Do Thick Terms Constitute a Distinctive Class of Affectively-charged Language?"

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Date: 09-Oct-2024
From: Dan Zeman [danczeman at gmail.com]
Subject: STAL Seminar, OCTOBER 14, 14.30: Matteo Colombo and Giovanni Cassani, "In the Thick of It. Do Thick Terms Constitute a Distinctive Class of Affectively-charged Language?"


The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network
(https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk
by Matteo Colombo and Giovanni Cassani (Tilburg University) entitled
"In the Thick of It. Do Thick Terms Constitute a Distinctive Class of
Affectively-charged Language?".

The talk will take place online on OCTOBER 14, 14:30-16:00 Central
European Time (CET) and is part of the of STAL network seminar series
(https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to
participate, please write to stalnetwork at gmail.com for the Zoom link.
Below you can find the abstract.

All welcome!


ABSTRACT:
Words like ‘courageous’, ‘clever’, ‘gullible’, ‘smelly’ and ‘tasty’
are examples of what philosophers call thick terms, which have a
significant degree of descriptive content and are evaluatively loaded,
too. Thick terms have been contrasted with purely evaluative terms
like ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘positive’ and ‘negative’, and descriptive terms
like ‘Dutch’, ‘tall’ and ‘pink’. Despite the amount of attention thick
terms have received in philosophy, however, it is unclear whether they
constitute a homogeneous class of evaluative terms with characteristic
psycholinguistic properties, and whether the psycholinguistic
properties of thick terms are reducible to their “valence norms”
(i.e., the degree of pleasantness/unpleasantness elicited by a word).
In this talk, we explore these two questions based on computational
modelling and behavioural data in English, Dutch and Italian. Our
results indicate that, compared to other affectively-charged words,
thick terms have characteristic psycholinguistic and information
properties irreducible to valence norms.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Semantics




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