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Slurs and Expressive Commitments [PDF]
Acta Analytica, 2020 AbstractMost accounts of the derogatory meaning of slurs are semantic. Recently, Nunberg (2018) proposed a purely pragmatic account offering a compelling picture of the relation between derogatory content and social context. Nunberg posits that the semantic content of slurs is identical to that of neutral counterparts, and that derogation is a result ...
Hess, Leopold
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Perspectiva Filosófica, 2021 La bibliografía reciente sobre slurs se enfrentó a un problema de clasificación. Díaz Legaspe (2018) ofreció una nueva taxonomía: “marginales” (out-group) y normalizantes.
Sofia Checchi
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Exactly Why Are Slurs Wrong? [PDF]
Daimon, 2021 This article seeks to provide a comprehensive and fundamental account of why racial epithets and similar slurs are immoral, whenever they are. It considers three major theories, roughly according to which they are immoral because they are harmful ...
Thaddeus Metz
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Normalizing Slurs and Out‐group Slurs: The Case of Referential Restriction [PDF]
Analytic Philosophy, 2018 Fil: Diaz Legaspe, Justina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina.
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A non-ideal approach to slurs. [PDF]
Synthese, 2023 Philosophers of language are increasingly engaging with derogatory terms or slurs. Only few theorists take such language as a starting point for addressing puzzles in philosophy of language with little connection to our real-world problems.
Mühlebach D.
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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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The Moral Status of the Reclamation of Slurs [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 While prototypical uses of slurs express contempt for targets, some reclaimed uses are associated with positive evaluations. This practice may raise concerns.
Bianca Cepollaro
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Mind & Language, 2022 Slurring expressions display puzzling behaviour when embedded, such as under negation and in attitude and speech reports. They frequently appear to retain their characteristic qualities, like offensiveness and propensity to derogate. Yet it is sometimes possible to understand them as lacking these qualities.
Mankowitz, Poppy, Shaw, Ashley
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Dutch slurs and the descriptive-expressive distinction
Glossa, 2023 There is a lot of debate about the meaning of slurs, which are words that refer to a certain group of people in a derogative manner. Many scholars (e.g.
Lotte Hogeweg
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The resistanf effect of slurs: A nonpropositional, presuppositional account
Daimon, 2021 The aim of this paper is to account for the resistance to cancelation, rejection, and retraction exhibited by slurs. The kind of explanation we offer is a presuppositional one.
Alba Moreno Zurita +1 more
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