36.3190, FYI: STAL Seminar, OCTOBER 27, 14:30 CET: Luvell Anderson, "Theories of Reclamation"

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Date: 21-Oct-2025
From: Dan Zeman [danczeman at gmail.com]
Subject: STAL Seminar, OCTOBER 27, 14:30 CET: Luvell Anderson, "Theories of Reclamation"


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 first talk of the 2025-2026 academic
year, given by Luvell Anderson (University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign) and entitled "Theories of Reclamation". The event
will take place online on Monday, OCTOBER 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:
Slurs are a complex linguistic phenomenon that requires attention to
both linguistic and non-linguistic features for their understanding.
One aspect of slurring language that highlights this attention is
reclamation. Linguistic reclamation—at least, the version philosophers
tend to speak about—refers to the practice of reappropriating slurs
for non-derogatory purposes. It is pretty common for members of an
oppressed group to reclaim slurs as an act of resistance. Some have
attempted to provide theories that account for this phenomenon in
general terms. In this talk, I argue that socio-historically specific
accounts, rather than general ones, provide more accurate analyses of
reclamation.

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics




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