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Philosophia (United States), 2020 Chris Hom argued that slurs and pejoratives semantically express complex negative prescriptive properties, which are determined in virtue of standing in external causal relations to social ideologies and practices. He called this view Combinatorial Externalism.
TERESA Marques, Marques TERESA
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Contexts as Shared Commitments [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Contemporary semantics assumes two different notions of context: one coming from Kaplan (1989), on which contexts are sets of predetermined parameters, and another originated in Stalnaker (1978), on which contexts are sets of propositions that are common
Manuel eGarcía-Carpintero
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Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2021 This article is devoted to the socially relevant and highly current topic of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on language, as exemplified by German. The empirical basis is provided by news reports in German, especially from Austrian mass media.
Oksana Havryliv
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The Derogatory Force and the Offensiveness of Slurs [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 Slurs are both derogatory and offensive, and they are said to exhibit “derogatory force” and “offensiveness.” Almost all theories of slurs, except the truth-conditional content theory and the invocational content theory, conflate these two features and ...
Chang Liu
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A collection of coarse words in manuscript form by Đorđe Natošević (1821-1887) as a source for the scientific study of derogatory terms in the Serbian language [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2023 In this paper we present a description and analysis of the collection of derogatory terms in manuscript form by Đorđe Natošević (1821-1887). Đ. Natošević amassed his collection of names from various sources in the mid-19th century.
Ivanović Nenad B., Jovanović Jovana B.
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Phytonymic Pejorative Names for Men in the Pirot Speech (Linguocultural Aspect)
Slavistica Vilnensis, 2021 The subject of the paper are nouns and noun phrases of negative expressive tonality, which primarily name realities from the plant world (plants and their parts, terms related to wood processing), and secondarily people in the Pirot dialect.
Dragana M. Ratković
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Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2022 The article discusses the reflection of the features of the own — alien dichotomy in the Balkan model of the world in the xenologic pejorative vocabulary of the Balkan sprachbund languages: Albanian, Aromanian, Bulgarian, Modern Greek, Macedonian ...
E. V. Romanin
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Rethinking Slurs: A Case Against Neutral Counterparts and the Introduction of Referential Flexibility [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 Slurs are pejorative expressions that derogate individuals or groups on the basis of their gender, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation and so forth. In the constantly growing literature on slurs, it has become customary to appeal to so-called
Alice Damirjian
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Развитие семантики слов кomi поз, удм. пуз в пермских языках [The Semantic Development of the Words Komi поз, Udm. пуз in the Permic Languages]; pp. 31-39 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2018 The article compares the diachronic development of the semantics of Proto-Uralic *pesa ânestâ, Permian *poz id. > Komi поз id., Udm. пÑз âeggâ) The study shows that the word has undergone the greatest semantic change in the Komi-Zyryan ...
Jevgenij Cypanov
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Language aggression in virtual professional communities [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2022 The study focuses on language aggression as it is enacted in virtual professional communities. With the aim to reveal the dominant forms and mechanisms of aggression in the virtual environment, the authors explore data retrieved from Russian social media.
Tatiana V. Dubrovskaya +1 more
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