The workshop

We are thrilled to announce the next EPITHETS & STAL-2025 Workshop - Genoa, May 7th-8th 2025 on (negative and positive) expressives and slurs across languages. 

EPITHETS (Explaining Pejoratives In THeoretical and Experimental TermS) is a multi-center project (UniGE, UniMiB, UniSR) that combines theoretical and experimental methods in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology to investigate negative expressives. 

STAL (Slurring Terms Across Languages) is an international and interdisciplinary workshop whose primary aim is to gather work on slurs from languages that have been seldom discussed and less studied phenomena in the recent philosophical and semantic literature, and in particular, from sign languages and non-Indo-European languages. 

We especially encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

The workshop includes a special session: Valence asymmetries in expressive language, supported by the ERC Advanced Grant VALENCE ASYMMETRIES n°101142133. 

Contacts: [email protected]