Conférencier : Chris Davis, professeur au Department of Languages and Cultures à l'University of the Ryukyus

Titre : Slurs, Invocations, and Social Meaning

Lieu : DS-3470 (à confirmer)

Résumé : What are slurs, and why should you care? In this talk, I give a snapshot of ongoing work with Elin McCready on the semantics and pragmatics of slurs. We argue that these terms should be analyzed as invoking particular content, a notion I elaborate on in the talk, tying the work to linguistic work on both expressive and social meaning.

Bio : I received my PhD in linguistics form the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011, and am an associate professor of linguistics at the University of the Ryukyus. My primary research areas are semantics, pragmatics, and fieldwork. Some of my recent research topics include the semantics and pragmatics of evidentials, (anti)honorifics, and slur terms. My fieldwork focuses on Yaeyaman, a Southern Ryukyuan language, and is targeted at broad description and documentation of the language as well as theoretically-oriented work. Recent fieldwork has been focused on construction of a cross-dialectal dialog corpus targeting different tense and mood forms and their usage.

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