35.2562, FYI: STAL Seminar, SEPTEMBER 23, 14.30: Bianca Cepollaro, Filippo Domaneschi and Isidora Stojanovic, "Slurs across Syntactic Realizations. Experimental Evidence on Predicative vs. Ad-nominal Uses of Slurs"

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Subject: 35.2562, FYI: STAL Seminar, SEPTEMBER 23, 14.30: Bianca Cepollaro, Filippo Domaneschi and Isidora Stojanovic, "Slurs across Syntactic Realizations. Experimental Evidence on Predicative vs. Ad-nominal Uses of Slurs"

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Date: 19-Sep-2024
From: Dan Zeman [dan_zeman at yahoo.com]
Subject: STAL Seminar, SEPTEMBER 23, 14.30: Bianca Cepollaro, Filippo Domaneschi and Isidora Stojanovic, "Slurs across Syntactic Realizations. Experimental Evidence on Predicative vs. Ad-nominal Uses of Slurs"


The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network
(https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk
by Bianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele), Filippo
Domaneschi (University of Genoa) and Isidora Stojanovic (Pompeu Fabra
University/CNRS) entitled "Slurs across Syntactic Realizations.
Experimental Evidence on Predicative vs. Ad-nominal Uses of Slurs".
The talk will take place online on SEPTEMBER 23, 14:30-16:00 Central
European Time 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:
The research on slurs has been largely striving to understand how
slurs encode their pejorative meaning – whether via truth-conditional
meaning, or conventional implicature, or presupposition, or otherwise.
Less attention has been paid to the question of what kind of
pejorative content slurs express or convey. It is the latter question
that we undertake in the present talk, and we do so by means of an
experimental study conducted over slurring terms in Italian, in line
with our earlier studies on pejoratives in Italian (“When is it ok to
call someone a jerk? An experimental investigation of expressives”,
Synthese 2020, and “Literally ‘a jerk’: an experimental investigation
of expressives in predicative position”, Language and Cognition,
forthcoming). We explore three options: (1) pejorative content is
agent-oriented, that is, reflects the negative attitudes of some
salient agent, typically the speaker; (2) pejorative content is
target-oriented, that is, brings to salience the negative properties
of the person(s) referred to with the slur; (3) pejorative content is
intersubjective, that is, reflects the negative attitudes of not only
the agent but further conversational participants, or even a larger
linguistic community. Crucially, we look at slurs both in predicative
position (X is a -slur-) and adnominal position (That -slur- X is Y).
Our results show that the agent-oriented option is the preferred one
for adnominal uses, while the target-oriented option, for predicative
uses: this suggests that the pejorative content encoded by slurs is
not uniform but varies along a syntactic dimension.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Semantics
                     Syntax




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