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This scientific meeting focuses on how violence is expressed, anticipated and interpreted through language across linguistic and cultural systems, in dialogue with recent developments in artificial intelligence and predictive modelling. It examines how violent phenomena are linguistically shaped through expectations, narrative framing and anticipatory structures that guide interpretation in specific social, cultural and institutional contexts.

Violence, whether physical, symbolic, institutional or verbal, is not limited to observable acts. It is also inscribed in discursive configurations that prepare its interpretation, organize its intelligibility and influence its normalization or contestation. The symposium approaches violence as a phenomenon embedded in predictive linguistic processes, where discourse anticipates roles, responsibilities, emotions and possible outcomes.

Drawing on interdisciplinary research in linguistics, social sciences, health sciences and artificial intelligence, the conference examines how predictive mechanisms operate in the linguistic construction of violence. Particular attention is paid to how language models and large multilingual corpora reveal recurring patterns, implicit norms and anticipatory frames that structure violent discourse across languages and cultures.

The analyses address diverse linguistic areas, allowing for comparative perspectives on how violence is narrated, categorized and anticipated. Romance languages are examined with regard to processes of explicitation, moral evaluation and legal anticipation in judicial, media and institutional discourses. Semitic languages are explored through the lens of metaphor, allusion and implicit meaning, highlighting anticipatory tensions between collective norms and individual expression. Germanic languages are approached through discursive strategies of distancing, rationalization and predictive attribution of responsibility. Asian languages provide insight into forms of verbalization where violence is anticipated through euphemism, collectivization or integration into traditional narrative schemas, raising questions about the limits of current predictive models.

By articulating predictive linguistics, discourse analysis and artificial intelligence, the symposium aims to develop an international mapping of linguistic expressions of violence and to show how anticipatory mechanisms contribute to shaping perception, interpretation and social regulation of violent phenomena. This perspective opens new avenues for comparative analysis of criminal, social and clinical discourses in a globalized and technologically mediated context.