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:
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).