Semantic constraint and pragmatic nonconformity for expressives: compatibility condition on slurs, epithets, anti-honorifics, intensifiers, and mitigators.

The main goal of this paper is to propose the Compatibility Condition for multiple expressive elements in Korean, which is highly applicable in other languages. Exploring the behavior of ethnic slurs in the presence of other regular expressive elements, I show the systematicity of how various expres...

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Published in:	Language Sciences Vol. 52; pp. 46 - 70
Main Author:	Yoon, Suwon
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier B.V. Nov2015
Subjects:	Semantics Pragmatics Expressive behavior Racism in language Epithets Honorific (Grammar) Adverbs Koreans
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