Department | Faculty of Translation and Language Sciences
29/04/2026 A Valence Asymmetries Workshop
Date: 29/04/2026
Location: Room 52.S25 - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Carrer de Roc Boronat 138, Barcelona, Spain)
This workshop brings together researchers working on expressive language, with a particular focus on negative expressives, valence, and related questions in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. The programme includes talks by invited speakers, doctoral researchers, and members of the Valence Asymmetries team.
Programme (pdf file)
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Programme
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11:00 – 11:45 |
Do negative expressives impose contextual constraints in a second language? A bilingual replication and extension |
Michelle Stanković & Morgan Moyer |
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11:45 – 12:00 |
Break |
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12:00 – 12:45 |
Potential triggers do not always escalate: Evidence from a pilot study (joint work with Vladislav Maraev & Christine Howes) |
Sara Amido |
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12:45 – 14:00 |
Catered Lunch offered by UPF |
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14:00 – 14:45 |
Speaking from above. A social meaning game for relational slurs |
Víctor Carranza-Pinedo |
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14:45 – 14:55 |
Break |
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14:55 – 15:40 |
We already knew slurs are pernicious. Now we know why: An experimental study of predicative and adnominal uses of slurs (joint work with Filippo Domaneschi & Bianca Cepollaro) |
Isidora Stojanovic |
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15:40 – 15:50 |
Break |
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15:50 – 16:35 |
A grammaticalization path of puta: Semantic bleaching of a derogatory term in talk-in-interaction |
Nicolás Rivera Bobadilla |
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16:35 – 17:15 |
Projection of the Valence Asymmetries Promotional Film (with a glass of Cava) |
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Registration closes 17 April 2026. Registration is free, but necessary. If you plan on attending, please register via the following link:. https://tinyurl.com/
Project website: https://www.upf.edu/web/
For any questions, please contact: [email protected]
This event is funded by Isidora Stojanovic’s ERC Advanced Grant Valence Asymmetries: the positive, the negative, the good and the bad in language, mind and morality, GA no. 101142133
