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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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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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Words in Motion: Slurs in Indirect Report
Gestalt Theory, 2021 Slurs are pejorative epithets that express negative attitudes toward a class of individuals sharing the same race, country of origin, sexual orientation, religion, and the like.
Tenchini Maria Paola
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Slur Reclamation – Polysemy, Echo, or Both? [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 This paper concerns the topic of slur reclamation. I start with presenting two seemingly opposing accounts of slur reclamation, Jeshion’s (2020) Polysemy view and Bianchi’s (2014) Echoic view.
Zuzanna Jusińska
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, 2023 International audienceWe 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 (
Sulpizio, Simone +3 more
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Slurs: Semantic Content, Expressive Content and Social Generics
Phenomenology and Mind, 2017 Slurs are offensive expressions targeting individuals on the basis of their membership to certain social groups. Some authors have argued that the offensiveness of slurs is related to the semantic encoding of stereotypes in their meaning.
Federico Cella
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Slurs Subordinate by Cueing the Ideology
Elpis, 2021 In recent years, a number of authors (e.g., Rae Langton, Mary K. McGowan, and Ishani Maitra) have tried to understand sexist and racist hate speech using John Austin’s speech act theory.
Bernd Prien
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Paving the road to hell: The Spanish word menas as a case study
Daimon, 2021 “Menas” is a term that has attracted a great deal of attention on the political scene in Spain at present. Although the term had a neutral usage originally, being an acronym for unaccompanied foreign minors, it has recently evolved into a term with ...
David Bordonaba Plou +1 more
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On the non-specificity of slurs [PDF]
, 2020 A quite neglected question pertaining to the classification of the different theories on slurs concerns their extendibility to other pejoratives and expressives in general. In this paper, we show that the linguistic behaviour of pejoratives is similar to
Frigerio Aldo, Tenchini Maria Paola
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, 2021 Speaker-orientation views (Hom 2008; Neufeld 2019; Camp 2013; Anderson and Lepore 2013; Williamson 2009; Jeshion 2013; Bolinger 2017) explain why slurs are offensive in terms of what slurs reveal about the general point of view of their speakers ...
Sapir, Jacob
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