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Phenomenology and Mind, 2017 We present the results of an experimental study that aims at establishing whether the offensive component of slurs exhibits nondisplaceability (Potts 2007).
Francesca Panzeri, Simone Carrus
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Slurs as the Shortcut of Discrimination
Rivista di Estetica, 2017 The last decade saw a growing interest for hate speech and the ways in which language reflects and perpetuates discrimination, with two main focuses of interest: a linguistic-oriented question about how slurs encode evaluation on the one hand, and a ...
Bianca Cepollaro
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Phenomenology and Mind, 2017 Slurs are typically defined as conveying contempt based on group-membership. However, here I argue that they are not a unitary group. First, I describe two dimensions of variation among derogatives: how targets are identified, and how offensive the term ...
Mihaela Popa-Wyatt
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The semantics of slurs: A refutation of coreferentialism
Ampersand, 2015 Coreferentialism refers to the common assumption in the literature that slurs (e.g. faggot) and descriptors (e.g. male homosexual) are coreferential expressions with precisely the same extension.
Adam M Croom
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Animalistic slurs increase harm by changing perceptions of social desirability [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 In propaganda and hate speech, target groups are often compared to dangerous and disgusting animals. Exposure to these animalistic slurs is thought to increase endorsement of intergroup harm but the mechanism by which this happens remains unclear. Across
Florence E. Enock, Harriet Over
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Misogyny incubators: how gaming helps channel everyday sexism into violent extremism [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyWe face a pervasive and proliferating climate of online misogyny, along with an ever-expanding digital ecosystem that makes it faster and easier to express and share hateful content and harass individuals.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
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Debating stereotypes: Online reactions to the vice-presidential debate of 2020. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The 2020 Vice-Presidential debate afforded the opportunity to examine online reactions toward a woman of color, Kamala Harris, and a white man, Mike Pence, as they vied for the same position. We collected tweets from the Twitter API related to Harris and
Diane H Felmlee +2 more
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Slurs: Departures from Genuine Uses and Derogation
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2020 Some non-appropriated uses of slurs seem to be non–derogatory. In this paper, I argue that in a range of cases, the lack of derogation is owed to the term not being genuinely used.
Belleri Delia
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Beyond the Conversation: The Pervasive Danger of Slurs [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 Although slurs are conventionally defined as derogatory words, it has been widely noted that not all of their occurrences are derogatory. This may lead us to think that there are “innocent” occurrences of slurs, i.e., occurrences of slurs that are not ...
Alba Moreno, Eduardo Pérez-Navarro
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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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