SAP sponsored event: Modelling Oppressive Speech/Norms & Social Meaning

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Modelling Oppressive Speech/Norms & Social Meaning

Oppressive speech harms its targets. The rise of hate speech in social media and politics vividly illustrates this. This workshop will study how oppressive speech harms. Topics include: the mechanisms through which oppressive utterance causes harm; how oppressive speech shifts norms; what motivates speakers to use such speech; why others comply with the resulting harmful norms; and what needs to change to eradicate these harmful norms. We also focus on relevant aspects of social meaning such as intra-speaker variation, e.g. that oppressive language has different effects depending on who the speaker and hearer are (in-group vs. out-group, etc.).

Speakers

• Stephen Barker (University of Nottingham)
• David Beaver (University of Texas at Austin)
• Anton Benz (ZAS-Berlin)
• Laura Caponetto (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan)
• Christoph Hesse (ZAS-Berlin)
• Robin Jeshion (University Southern California)
• Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
• Mary Kate McGowan (Wellesley College)
• David Pietraszewski (Max Plank Institute, Berlin)
• Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (ZAS-Berlin)
• Uli Sauerland (ZAS-Berlin)
• Stephanie Solt (ZAS-Berlin)
• Lynne Tirrell (University of Connecticut)

Organisers

Mihaela Popa-Wyatt, Anton Benz, Stephanie Solt

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