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Unmentionables: Some Remarks on Taboo [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
This paper discusses the phenomenon of linguistic taboo. It contrasts that phenomenon with the truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional dimensions of meaning, paying particular attention to slurs and coarseness. It then highlights the peculiarities of
Stefano Predelli
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Slurs and Meaning [PDF]

, 2020
This essay examines the semantics-pragmatics divide in some recent articles about slurs. The semantic accounts suggesting a hybrid semantic meaning as well as the accounts that wish to include the notion of linguistic competence in semantic meaning are ...
Jensen, Amanda
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How quotation and referential intentions modulate the derogatory force of slur utterances

Frontiers in Communication
The need for new insights to understand the effects of quoting slurs in linguistic communication has been evident over the past several years. Slurs seem to be capable of offending even when embedded in quotations or mentioned.
David Miguel Gray, David Miguel Gray
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The Social Life of Slurs [PDF]

, 2018
The words we call slurs are just plain vanilla descriptions like ‘cowboy’ and ‘coat hanger’. They don't semantically convey any disparagement of their referents, whether as content, conventional implicature, presupposition, “coloring” or mode of ...
Nunberg, Geoff
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Slurs: Departures from Genuine Uses and Derogation

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2020
Some non-appropriated uses of slurs seem to be non–derogatory. In this paper, I argue that in a range of cases, the lack of derogation is owed to the term not being genuinely used.
Belleri Delia
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Gendered Epithets in Two Prominent Romanian Dictionaries

Gender Studies, 2022
The present paper seeks to investigate the representation of a relevant number of gendered epithets in two prominent Romanian dictionaries, the most recent edition of DOOM (2021, Third Edition) and the current edition of DEX (2016, Revised Edition based ...
Vişan Ruxandra
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A man of his time: Joseph Leidy, racial science, and American anatomy

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Professor Joseph Leidy M.D. was arguably the most influential anatomist in the nineteenth‐century United States, having written over 500 publications and serving as the first President of the Association of American Anatomists. While many of Leidy's diverse contributions to American science and medicine are well‐known, scholars have said much ...
Christopher D. E. Willoughby
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The Pragmatics of Slurs

Noûs, 2015
AbstractI argue that the offense generation pattern of slurring terms parallels that of impoliteness behaviors, and is best explained by appeal to similar purely pragmatic mechanisms. In choosing to use a slurring termratherthan its neutral counterpart, the speaker signals that she endorses the term (and its associations).
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Slurs, een descriptief-expressief continuüm.

, 2021
Er is veel discussie ontstaan over de eigenschappen van slurs. Semantici hebben aangetoond dat slurs naast hun referentiële, descriptieve inhoud ook een expressieve, denigrerende component hebben. Slurs hebben volgens vele visies een neutrale tegenhanger.
Neuleman, M.E.M.
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