Slurs as Illocutionary Force Indicators.
Slurs are derogatory words and they are used to derogate certain groups. Theories of slurs must explain why they are derogatory words, as well as other features like independence and descriptive ineffability. This paper proposes an illocutionary force indicator theory of slurs: they are derogatory t...
| Publicado en: | Philosophia Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 1051 - 1066 |
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