36.3233, Confs: Slurring Terms Across Languages Worshop (Spain)

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Subject: 36.3233, Confs: Slurring Terms Across Languages Worshop (Spain)

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Date: 23-Oct-2025
From: Alba Moreno Zurita [alba.moreno at usc.es]
Subject: Slurring Terms Across Languages Worshop

Slurring Terms Across Languages Worshop
Short Title: STAL-2026

Date: 14-May-2026 - 15-May-2026
Location: Granada, Spain
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/stal-2026

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics;
Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics

Submission Deadline: 15-Dec-2025

Description:
Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL-2026) is an international and
interdisciplinary workshop whose primary aim is to gather work on
slurs from languages that have been seldom discussed in the recent
philosophical and semantic literature, and in particular, from sign
languages and non-Indo-European languages. It aims to bring to light
new empirical data and uncover novel interesting phenomena that may
have the potential to challenge current theories of slurs. We search
for theoretical and empirical studies of slurs from such languages,
comparisons with English slurs, as well as wider cross-linguistic
approaches. We also welcome developments
of extant theories in application to the new data or previously
neglected phenomena.
Topics: slurs, pejoratives, crosslinguistic data, derogatory speech,
valence
Call for Papers:
We invite submission of abstracts for 50 min talks (30-minute
presentation + 20 minutes for Q&A). Abstracts should be anonymous, the
main text should be 2 pages in length, with an optional third page for
glossed examples, references, or figures (Note: use a third page for
examples only when they are non-English examples and are glossed.)
Abstracts are due before December 15, 2025 and should be submitted via
Google Forms at this link: https://forms.gle/W6McPvUbAWnkPhX79. We
expect to notify authors of their acceptance by February.
(Note: We are aware that mentioning terms like slurs is a
controversial issue. We will not, however, take a stance on this
matter, but we would like to ask submitters to be sensitive to the
issue.)
We especially encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.
Special Session:
STAL-2026 will include a special session entitled Valence asymmetries
in expressive language, supported by the ERC Advanced Grant VALENCE
ASYMMETRIES n°101142133 (PI: Isidora Stojanovic). We invite
contributions on issues concerned with the positive, negative or
ambivalent valence of expressive terms. In particular, we encourage:
- empirical studies (experimental, corpus and field studies) concerned
with the valence of
expressive terms (incl. slurs, pejoratives, amelioratives);
- analyses of how the valence of a term can shift (as, for example, in
slur reclamation).
The ERC Grant can pay for the travel (up to 500€) of the selected
contributors (NB: only one contributor per submission can be granted
funding). Please indicate whether you want your contribution to be
considered for the special session. (Submissions deemed insufficiently
relevant to this session will still be considered for the general
session.)
For more information about the Valence Asymmetries project (ERC
Advanced Grant), visit https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries.
Program Committee:
Justina Berskyte (University of Manchester), Bianca Cepollaro
(University Vita-Salute San Raffaele), Filippo Domaneschi (University
of Genoa), Leopold Hess (Jagiellonian University), Elsi Kaiser
(University of Southern California), Chang Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong
University), Nicolas Lo Guercio (CONICET/University of Buenos Aires),
Elin McCready (ICREA/Autonomous University of Barcelona), Alba Moreno
Zurita (University of Santiago de Compostela), Eleonora Orlando
(CONICET/University of Buenos Aires), Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos
(University of Oslo), Andrés Saab (SADAF/University of Buenos Aires),
Isidora Stojanovic (CNRS/Institut Jean Nicod & Pompeu Fabra
University), Simone Sulpizio (University of Milano-Bicocca), Neftali
Villanueva (University of Granada), Dan Zeman (University of Porto).
Organizing Committee:
The workshop is organized by Neftalí Villanueva (University of
Granada), Alba Moreno Zurita (University of Santiago de Compostela),
Sergio Guerra (University of Granada), Dan Zeman (University of Porto)
and Isidora Stojanovic (CNRS & Pompeu Fabra University).
Venue:
The conference will be held at Residencia Universitaria Carmen de la
Victoria, Cta. del Chapiz, 9, Albaicín, 18010 Granada, Spain.
Accommodation:
Please note that the organizers won’t cover accommodation costs. It
is, however, possible to book rooms for participants at the venue of
the conference for the duration of the workshop (3 nights: May 13-16)
at the usual rates. Participants should let the organizers know in
advance if they have this preference.
Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/stal-2026
Contact:
All questions about the workshop should be emailed to
stalnetwork at gmail.com.
Link to event info:
https://philevents.org/event/show/140238
Link to CFP:
https://philevents.org/event/show/140242

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