Notes from Abigaël's talk

Did you miss Abigael's talk? Here are some notes. Don't forget that this week we have a second meeting, a joint session with the Semantic Typology Lab on Friday.

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Numbers on assault are steady or increasing: We're getting better at asking questions

The way people communicate about sexual consent is the same way they communicate about everything else. The normal way to give a refusal is indirect, in all situations

Critical discourse analysis on a corpus with data produced by UK institutions

Often, responsibility shifted from perpetrator to survivor

Violence also sometimes portrayed as a byproduct beyond perpetrator's control: easy, understandable

Resources need to be created and existing resources need to be improved