The Pragmatics of Slurs.
I 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 term rather than its neutral counterpart, the speaker signals that she endorses the term (and...
| Publicado en: | Nous (0029-4624) Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 439 - 463 |
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