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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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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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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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On the Moral Import of Using Slurs
, 2021 In this chapter I examine the thesis that there is a theoretically interesting relation between the semantic account of slurs, namely, expressions such as "spic", "nigger", "faggot", "dyke", "kike", "whore", etc.
Orlando, Eleonora Eva
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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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Dualism and Monism in the Study of Slurs and Beyond
, 2021 In this chapter we propose a novel classification of the main positions concerning the account of slurs, in particular, we distinguish dualist positions, inspired in Kaplan, according to which slurs have two dimensions of meaning, from monist approaches ...
Saab, Andrés Leandro +1 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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Building Evaluation into Language
Phenomenology and Mind, 2017 In this paper I spell out the conditions for a uniform analysis of thick terms and slurs, presented in Cepollaro and Stojanovic (2016). Our claim is that thick terms and slurs convey evaluations via presupposition and represent a device through which ...
Bianca Cepollaro
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