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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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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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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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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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How quotation and referential intentions modulate the derogatory force of slur utterances
Frontiers in CommunicationThe 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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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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, 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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Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.Objective Spinocerebellar ataxia 1 (SCA1) is a fatal hereditary neurodegenerative disorder with no approved therapies, and gene‐targeting strategies have thus far failed in clinical trials. Exercise remains the only intervention shown to provide clinical benefit in patients with spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs), yet the underlying mechanisms remain ...
Isabel Soto +12 more
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If It Looks Like a *uck: A Provocation on B*d Words
Proceedings from the Document Academy, 2016 For some decades, we’ve been considering (and using) “b*d” words. Such a large part of the document space is made up of words; it seems necessary, upon occasion, to explore the crooked little paths and messy gutters occupied by some words. We invite your
Jodi Kearns, Brian O'Connor
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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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