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Pejoratives

Philosophy Compass, 2010
Abstract The norms surrounding pejorative language, such as racial slurs and swear words, are deeply prohibitive. Pejoratives are typically a means for speakers to express their derogatory attitudes. As these attitudes vary along many dimensions and magnitudes, they initially appear to be resistant to a truth‐conditional, semantic ...
Christopher Hom
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Pejoratives, Contexts and Presuppositions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017
Kaplan started a fruitful debate on the meaning of pejoratives. He suggests that a dimension of expressive meaning is required, separated from the straightforward “at issue” content. To account for this, writers have elaborated on this suggestion, by arguing that the separated expressive meaning of pejoratives and slurs is instead either a conventional
Manuel García-Carpintero, García-Carpintero Manuel   +1 more
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Varieties of Pejoratives

, 2021
In her chapter, “Pejoratives”, Robin Jeshion distinguishes pejorative lexical items (including slurs like the n-word and suffixes like -tard) from pejorative uses of words (like boy used to refer to an African-American man) and pejorative speech acts, which may occur independently of an utterance of a pejorative lexical items or any words used ...
Robin Jeshion
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Quantification with pejoratives

Linguistik Aktuell, 2016
Following the influential work of Potts (2005), pejoratives have often been understood as expressive items that contribute content to a different dimension of meaning. In this paper, we will show that the standard formal tools as offered by Potts’s work and our subsequent extensions of his system (Gutzmann 2011; McCready 2010), cannot deal with certain
Daniel Gutzmann, Eric Mccready
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Demonstrative pejoratives [PDF]

, 2016
Cross-linguistically an affinity to pejoration has been repeatedly observed for demonstrative reference to human beings. Concentrating on German demonstratives I propose to conceive the pejoration effect here as an interplay of semantic and pragmatic factors.
Maria Averintseva-Klisch
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Pejoratives in Korean

, 2016
This paper analyzes the patterns of pejoration-marking in Korean. The speaker’s pejorative attitude is realized as diverse morpho-syntactic devices (Koo 2004). The most common devices of pejoration-marking fall under the following six categories classified according to the semantics of the source lexemes and constructions: (i) topographical periphery, (
Hyun Jung Koo, Seongha Rhee
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The Impoliteness of Slurs and Other Pejoratives in Reported Speech

Corpus Pragmatics, 2020
Some linguistic expressions do not have only a referential component, through which they refer to something in the world, but also (or exclusively) a connotative component, through which they express a speaker’s attitudes or feelings toward that which ...
Maria Paola Tenchini, Aldo Frigerio, Frigerio Aldo   +2 more
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An Indexical Theory of Racial Pejoratives

Analytic Philosophy, 2019
This paper defends a novel truth-conditional theory of racial pejoratives that is distinctive by locating an indexical component in their content. The paper reviews rival theories (which are divided into three main approaches: semantic, pragmatic and ...
Michael Scott, Graham Stevens
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Refusing to Endorse: A Must Explanation for Pejoratives [PDF]

, 2018
In her analysis of pejoratives, Eva Picardi rejects a too sharp separation between descriptive and expressive content. Carlo Penco reconstructs some of her arguments, endorsing Eva’s criticism of Williamson’s analysis of Dummett and developing a ...
Carlo Penco, Penco Carlo
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Abhorrent Slurs and Laudable Pejoratives: An Estonian Case Study of the Space Between [PDF]

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Some pejoratives are slurs—they target people on the basis of protected characteristics. Other pejoratives are what we can call “cognitive-behavioural pejoratives”: they target contemptible conduct or character, not protected characteristics.
Alex Davies
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