36.3401, FYI: STAL Seminar: Claire Horisk, "Derogatory Speech: Conversations, Hearers, and Listeners"

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Subject: 36.3401, FYI: STAL Seminar: Claire Horisk, "Derogatory Speech: Conversations, Hearers, and Listeners"

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Date: 06-Nov-2025
From: Dan Zeman [danczeman at gmail.com]
Subject: STAL Seminar: Claire Horisk, "Derogatory Speech: Conversations, Hearers, and Listeners"


The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network
(https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home), an international and
interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on
slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied
languages, invites you to the second talk of the 2025-2026 academic
year. The invited speaker is Claire Horisk (University of Missouri),
who will give a talk entitled "Derogatory Speech: Conversations,
Hearers, and Listeners" (see the abstract below). The event will take
place online on Monday, NOVEMBER 17, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time
(CET), and is part of the of STAL network seminar series (program
here: 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 of the talk.
All welcome!
ABSTRACT:
In discussions of how to mitigate political and cultural polarization,
we are often told that we should listen to our opponents. But should
we listen regardless of what they say—even to derogatory speech? From
the standpoint of philosophy, the prescription to listen lacks
subtlety, and we cannot reach greater subtlety without a philosophical
account of listening itself. In my recent work, I distinguish between
listening and hearing and argue that listening to derogatory speech in
the context of a conversation is sometimes morally wrong. In this
talk, I expand my account, particularly with respect to how power
dynamics affect who counts as a conversational participant.

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics




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