reading
reading session
Wednesdays from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Sadaf (biweekly)
2022
April 6 - McCready, The semantics and pragmatics of honorification, ch. 1-3 (Ramiro Caso and Nicolás Lo Guercio)
April 20 - Double research session
May 4 - McCready, The semantics and pragmatics of honorification, ch. 4 (Eduardo García Ramírez)
May 18 - Double research session
June 1 - McCready, The semantics and pragmatics of honorification, ch. 5 (Eduardo García Ramírez)
June 15 - McCready, The semantics and pragmatics of honorification, ch. 6 (Eleonora Orlando)
July 6 - McCready, The semantics and pragmatics of honorification, ch. 7 (Eleonora Orlando)
July 20 - McCready, The semantics and pragmatics of honorification, ch. 8 (Eleonora Orlando)
August 3 - Rett, "A comparison of expressives and miratives" (Nicolás Lo Guercio)
August 17 - Vicente, Fraser y Castroviejo, "Lenguaje peyorativo en español: términos despreciativos y términos neutros usados como insultos" (Andrés Saab)
August 31 - Masià, "A Typology of evaluative nouns" (Leandro Cherñavsky)
September 7 - Zeman, "A rich-lexicon theory of slurs and their uses" (Federico Jaimes)
September 21 - Portner, Pak & Zanuttini, "The speaker-addressee relation at the syntax-semantics interface" (Ramiro Caso)
October 6 - Double research session
October 19 - Demonte, "Expresividad y peyoratividad. Varias maneras de insultar, pero un único objetivo" (Andrés Saab)
November 2 - Marques, "Pejoratives & oughts" (Federico Jaimes)
2021
June 2 - Jeshion, “Pride and Prejudiced: On the Reclamation of Slurs” (Sofía Checchi)
June 16 - Burnett, "A Persona-Based Semantics for Slurs" (Nicolás Lo Guercio)
July 7 - Ritchie, "Social Identity, Indexicality, and the Appropriation of Slurs" (Ramiro Caso)
July 21 - Bolinger, "Contested Slurs" (Florencia Silva)
August 4 - Cepollaro, "Let's Not Worry about the Reclamation Worry" (Fernando Carranza)
August 18 - Bianchi, "Slurs and appropiation: An echoic account" (Federico Jaimes)
September 1 - Marques & García-Carpintero, "Really Expressive Presuppositions and How to Block Them" (Leandro Cherñavsky)
September 15 - Rappaport, "Slurs and Toxicity: It's not about meaning" (Alfonso Losada)
November 3 - Felkam, "'Boys Don't Cry' - An Ambiguous Statement?" (Jorge Ledezma)
December 1 - Kleinman, Ezzell & Frost, "Reclaiming Critical Analysis: The Social Harms of 'Bitch'" (Alfonso Losada)
December 15 - Patterson, "Epistemic Slurs: A Novel Explicandum and Adequacy Constraint for Slur Theories" (Federico Jaimes)
2020
March 4 - Neufeld, "An essentialist theory of the meaning of slurs" (Ramiro Caso)
April 1 - Tirrell, "Toxic Speech: Toward an Epidemiology of Discursive Harm" (Eduarda Calado Barbosa)
April 15 - Cepollaro, "In defence of a presuppositional account of slurs" (Federico Jaimes)
May 6 - Croom, "The Semantics of Slurs: A Refutation of Coreferentialism" (Sofia Checchi)
May 20 - TBD (Eleonora Orlando)
June 3 - Poppa Wyatt & Wyatt, "Slurs, Roles and Power" (Eduardo García-Ramírez)
June 17 - Double research session
July 1 - Nunberg, "The social life of slurs" (Nicolás Lo Guercio)
August 5 - Gutzmann, The Grammar of Expressivity, ch. 1-3 (Matías Verdecchia)
August 19 - Gutzmann, The Grammar of Expressivity, ch. 4 (Andrés Saab)
September 2 - Gutzmann, The Grammar of Expressivity, ch. 5 (Fernando Carranza)
September 16 - Gutzmann, The Grammar of Expressivity, ch. 6 (Sofía Checchi)
October 7 - Gutzmann, The Grammar of Expressivity, ch. 6 (Sofía Checchi)
October 21 - den Dikken, Relators and Linkers, ch. 5 (Andrés Saab)
November 4 - den Dikken, Relators and Linkers, ch. 5 (Andrés Saab)
November 18 - Basso, "Use-conditional expressions and nonlocal interpretation" (Matías Verdecchia)