How Language Oppresses

Project description

Understanding oppressive speech

Language is a powerful tool. It can build or destroy. It can inform, influence, mobilise, manipulate, comfort and hurt. Language can also oppress but little is known about how language oppresses and the motivation behind it. The EU-funded HaLO project aims to fill this knowledge gap. It will take a multidisciplinary approach that combines and complements the strengths of game theory and theories of social norms and social injustice. The project will use game theory to explain how oppressive speech impacts a conversation and how people are motivated to oppress others through speech. It will also examine the role that speech plays in preserving social injustice.

Fields of science

• social sciences › sociology › social issues › social inequalities
• natural sciences › mathematics › applied mathematics › game theory

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2018 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2018

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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Coordinator

GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZENTREN BERLIN EV

Net EU contribution

€ 174 806,40

Address

Schutzenstrasse 18
10117 Berlin
Germany

Region

Berlin › Berlin › Berlin

Activity type

Research Organisations

Links

Non-EU contribution

€ 0,00