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Communicating with Slurs.

An adequate linguistic theory of slurs must address three major aspects of their meaning: descriptive, evaluative and expressive. Slurs denote specific groups, they are used to convey speakers' evaluative attitudes, and some have a very strong emotional impact. In this paper, I argue that a variety...

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Published in:Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 69; no. 277; pp. 795 - 817
Main Author: Rappaport, Jesse
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Oct2019
Subjects:
Discriminatory language
Pragmatics
Communication
Swearing (Profanity)
Linguistics
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