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Remarks on The Semantics of Racial Slurs [PDF]
, 2014 In “The Semantics of Racial Slurs,” an article recently published in Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Hedger draws upon Kaplan’s distinction between descriptive and expressive content to argue that slurs are expressions with purely expressive
Croom, Adam M.
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Mandando bocas: Woo and Sex among Sampadjudu Young Men
Revista de Antropología Social, 2016 In this paper I deal with a Cape Verdean phenomenon: the mandar bocas (“to send mouths”). Specifically, I analyse the action of “mandar bocas” made by men in the town of Mindelo.
Francisco Miguel
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
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The Relational Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The increasingly widespread use of generative artificial intelligence has begun to reshape the landscape of interpersonal communication. It is no longer unusual, for example, for co‐workers to reply to each other's emails, or even romantic partners and family members to respond to each other with AI‐generated messages.
Désirée Lim
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu +2 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Banter represents an interaction practice that is typical of many close social relationships with behaviors often ambiguous in nature and maybe aggressive. This review summarizes and synthesizes the literature on offline and online banter published between 2000 and 2022 to examine: (a) the behavioral and situational factors that characterize ...
Lucy R. Betts +4 more
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Sir and Guys in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the diachronic development of formal and informal address and reference terms in American English as an effect of democratization using the COHA corpus (1900–2020). In focus are two address/reference terms with especially drastic frequency trends in the timespan investigated: the honorific sir, which declines sharply from ...
Hanna Bruns, Svenja Kranich
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International Journal of Communication, 2018 In September 2012, the Japanese celebrity and porn star Sora Aoi posted two messages on her Sina Weibo account expressing friendship between Japanese and Chinese citizens.
Jason Q. Ng, Eileen Le Han
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Grazer Philosophische Studien, 2020 Sometimes speakers within a linguistic community use a term that they do not conceptualize as a slur, but which other members of that community do. Sometimes these speakers are ignorant or naïve, but not always. This article explores a puzzle raised when some speakers stubbornly maintain that a contested term t is not derogatory.
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Caenorhabditis elegans as an in vivo model system for human inherited primary arrhythmia syndromes
The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract figure legend Most genes involved in inherited primary arrhythmia syndromes (IPAS) are conserved in Caenorhabditis elegans, where genetic manipulation enables functional characterization of variants, identification of regulatory proteins, and in vivo drug testing.
Antoine Delinière +6 more
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