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Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies, 2022 Scholar Amar Wahab, co-editor of the Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies , interviews queer diasporic filmmaker and lecturer Dr. Michelle Mohabeer about her critical and creative documentary interventions – spanning over 30 years – which seek to ...
Michelle Mohabeer, Amar Wahab
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Fire and Materials, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relationship between accidental dwelling fire incidence and fire injury and fatality was examined using a Bayesian model to estimate the probability of a fire injury or fatality resulting from an accidental dwelling fire incidence under different circumstances of fire incidence (type of accidental dwelling fire, dwelling occupancy type ...
M. Taylor +5 more
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Ethnic Slurs as War Names in the Zimbabwean Liberation War
Names, 2007 The Zimbabwean war of liberation raged from 1966 until 1979. During that time many combatants assumed (or were given) noms de guerre. From a collection of more than 4800 of these war names we found that ethnic slurs comprised 9% of the total. One name in
Lawrie A. Barnes, Charles Pfukwa
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Daimon, 2021 In this paper we analyse utterances that, without explicitly constituting hate speech, nevertheless convey a hateful message. For example, in the headline ‘Iraqi Refugee is convicted in Germany of raping and murdering teenage girl’, the presence of ...
Álvaro Domínguez Armas +1 more
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Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Emerging adulthood is a critical developmental period for identity consolidation and career preparation, yet lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) emerging adults often face intersecting challenges during this stage. Using a person‐centered approach, this study explored heterogeneity in developmental experiences among LGB emerging ...
Jeongeun Park
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Slurs and Semantic Indeterminacy [PDF]
, 2020 The analysis of the derogatory aspect of slurs has recently aroused interest among philosophers of language. A puzzling element of it is its erratic behaviour in embeddings, for instance negation or belief reports.
Torrengo G.
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Ameliorating Linguistic Anchors of Oppression
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The words we use to represent the world shape how we interpret and respond to it; language frames what it represents. In some cases, these frames can have prejudicial effects; for example, ‘workplace flirting’ versus ‘sexual harassment’. This article examines how specific words and phrases (i.e.
Emilia L. Wilson
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The Evolving Understanding of Slurs: An Inquiry into Meaning and Effect of Slurs
Croatian Journal of PhilosophyIn this précis, we summarize the key themes and arguments of the Inflammatory Language: Its Linguistics and Philosophy.
Stojnić, Una, Lepore, Ernie
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Generic View of Gendered Slurs and the Subset Argument
, 2022 The neutral counterpart assumption is widely accepted in the study of slurs. It provides a simple and an effective explanation for the meaning of slurs. Slurring terms are coextensional with their neutral counterparts.
Valtonen, Pasi
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Legacy and the Politics of Racial Terminology
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When a term carries a sordid past, it is tempting to think it should have no future use. Yet the normative life of a word is rarely exhausted by its origins. This article develops legacy analysis as a method for enriching evaluation of what should be done with historically burdened terms. Rather than treating origins as decisive, the framework
Paul‐Mikhail Catapang Podosky
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