There’s a certain kind of study we used to see all the time. The researchers ask all participants to make a judgment regarding the exact same question, but then they vary something in the external situation. They change the temperature in the room. Or the song that is playing in the background. Or they do…
Month: November 2024
Call: “EPITHETS & STAL-2025 Workshop”
The next workshop by the project “Explaining Pejoratives in Theoretical and Experimental Terms” (EPITHETS) and the “Slurring Terms Across Languages” (STAL) network will take place in Genoa, Italy, from May 7 to 8, 2025. Abstracts can be submitted until December 10. The call reads:
Call: “The Puzzle of Social Behavior – Game Theory and Beyond”
Mantas Radzvilas and Wolfgang Spohn organize a workshop on “The Puzzle of Social Behavior – Game Theory and Beyond” at the University of Bielefeld. It will take place from April 3 to 5, 2025. Abstracts can be submitted until January 6, 2025. The call reads: There are up to 5 further slots of 40 minutes…
Talk: “Maximize Expressivity!” (Nicolás Lo Guercio)
On Monday, November 4, from 14:30–16:00 (UTC+2), the Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network will present Nicolás Lo Guercio’s talk “Maximize Expressivity!” as part of the STAL seminar series. The abstract reads: In interpreting utterances language users frequently compare the sentence used by the speaker with a set of alternative sentences that she could have…