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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...

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Published in:Nous (0029-4624) Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 439 - 463
Main Author: Bolinger, Renée Jorgensen
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2017
Subjects:
Discriminatory language
Pragmatics
Offensive behavior
Psycholinguistics
Language & languages
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