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Mind & Language, 2023 We investigate experimentally whether the perceived offensiveness of slurs survives when they are reported, by comparing Italian slurs and insults in base utterances (Y is an S), direct speech (X said: “Y is an S”), mixed quotation (X said that Y is “an S”), and indirect speech (X said that Y is an S).
Cepollaro, Bianca +3 more
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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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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.
Legaspe, Justina Diaz
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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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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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The Identification of Slurs and Swear Words in Bronte Sisters’ Novels
Lingua Cultura, 2019 This research aimed at identifying the categories of slurs, presenting how swear words expressed in male or female characters of Bronte sisters’ novels, and examining the social status scale in presenting slurs.
Citra Suryanovika, Irma Manda Negara
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Slur Creation, Bigotry Formation: the Power of Expressivism
Phenomenology and Mind, 2017 Theories of slurs aim to explain how – via semantics, pragmatics, or other mechanisms – speakers who use slurs convey that targets are inferior persons. I present two novel problems. The Slur Creation Problem: How do terms come to be slurs? An expression
Robin Jeshion
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