Contested Slurs: Delimiting the Linguistic Community.
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 cont...
| Publicado en: | Grazer Philosophische Studien Vol. 97; no. 1; pp. 11 - 31 |
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2020
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