Slurs and Toxicity: It's Not about Meaning.
Slurs are special. They can be so powerful and harmful that even mentioning them can be offensive. What explains this "toxicity" that many slurs display? Most discussions in the literature on slurs attempt to analyze the derogatory meaning of slurs, differing in where they locate this meaning – in t...
| Publicado en: | Grazer Philosophische Studien Vol. 97; no. 1; pp. 177 - 203 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2020
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