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Slurs and Redundancy

Philosophia, 2022
According to nearly all theorists writing on the subject, a certain derogatory content is regularly and systematically communicated by slurs. So united, the theorists disagree sharply on the elements of this content, on its provenance, and on its mechanism.
Berkovski, Y. Sandy
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Slurs, Synonymy, and Taboo

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2022
The ‘prohibitionist’ idea that slurs have the same linguistic properties as their neutral counterparts hasn’t received much support in the literature. Here I offer a modified version of prohibitionism, according to which the taboo on using slurs is part of their conventional meaning.
Berkovski, Yehezkel Sandy
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The Reporting of Slurs

, 2016
This essay examines the semantics and pragmatics of a handful of potential slurring terms identifying many of their uses in extant texts in order to assess slurring and non-slurring instances. Also examined are benchmarks for politeness that feed into so-called ‘political correctness’ and attitudes to what language expressions and behaviour are ...
Keith Allan, Allan, Keith
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Slurs [PDF]

Language Sciences, 2011
Slurs possess interesting linguistic properties and so have recently attracted the attention of linguists and philosophers of language. For instance the racial slur "nigger" is explosively derogatory, enough so that just hearing it mentioned can leave ...
Croom, Adam M., Adam M. Croom
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Are ableist insults secretly slurs?

Language Sciences, 2020
Philosophers often treat racist and sexist slurs as a special sort of puzzle. What is the difference between a slur and its correlates? In attempting to answer this question, a second distinction has been overlooked: that between slurs and insults.
Chris Cousens
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A rich-lexicon theory of slurs and their uses [PDF]

Inquiry (United Kingdom), 2022
In this paper, I present data involving the use of the Romanian slur ‘țigan’, consideration of which leads to the postulation of a sui-generis, irreducible type of use of slurs. This type of use is potentially problematic for extant theories of slurs. In
Dan Zeman
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Slurs

2020
Abstract Explanations of slur technique, known also as ligado, in guitar methods tend to be limited. This chapter looks at what Matteo Carcassi and Ferdinando Carulli called “vibration” or “´écho” slurs, which allow players to keep slurs aligned with strong and weak beats.
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Slurs and Expressivity

2021
Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by Eleonora Orlando and Andres Saab,focuses on the analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words, namely, those words prima facie related to the conveyance of contemptuous or derogatory feelings for the members of a certain group of people identified in terms of their ethnicity, sexual orientation,
Eleonora Orlando, Andr’s Saab
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Slurs

Abstract This chapter explores slurs, which are, roughly, words or phrases that derogate people based on their social group membership. Slurs are philosophically perplexing in several ways; for one, they can derogate despite the absence of any speaker intention to do so, but they can also be reclaimed by certain speakers in certain ...
Ishani Maitra, Mary Kate McGowan
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When is a slur not a slur? The use of nigger in ‘Pulp Fiction’

Language Sciences, 2015
Slurs are defined and shown to be determined by context of use and not lexical form. It has been proposed that words like nigger should be eradicated from the English language on the presupposition that the word itself is a slur and its eradication will eliminate the slur against African-Americans. This presumption is demonstrably false and in any case
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