Generics and stereotypes in discourse: A cross-disciplinary perspective.
Leiden University (the Netherlands). 5-6 June 2025.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 January 2025.
Organiser(s)
- Laure Gardelle, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Naomi Truan, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Presentation
The aim of this international conference is to bring together researchers from various disciplines – linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, communication and media studies, marketing, psychology, history, political science, among others – to further our understanding of how and why generics and stereotypes are explicitly referred to in discourse by speakers.
Despite the wealth of research on generics and stereotypes, the issue of why speakers would want to make a generic statement or make explicit reference to a stereotype in a given context has been understudied to date.
Keynote speaker
Camiel J. Beukeboom, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, PI on the NWO project “Uncovering biased language use: Implicit Communication of Stereotypes in Natural Language”
Website address
https://www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/06/generics-and-stereotypes
Contact details
- Laure Gardelle (laure.gardelle@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr)
- Naomi Truan n.a.l.truan@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
CFP
For further details please check the original call inserted below.
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