Overview

SocioLex is a PRIMUS funded project being run at Ústav českého jazyka a teorie komunikace, Filozofická Fakulta, Univerzita Karlova (Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Arts, Charles University).

Aims

The core aims of the project are:

• To develop the first large-scale quantitative norms for social dimensions of word meaning

• To explore where words may differ or remain stable in terms of socio-semantic representations across different populations of people

• To understand the role of socio-semantics in language processing, perception and production

People

• James Brand (Principal Investigator)

• Adam Kříž (Post-doc)

• Mikuláš Preininger (PhD student)

• Markéta Ceháková (PhD student)