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...

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Published in:	Philosophia Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 1051 - 1066
Main Author:	Liu, Chang
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jul2021
Subjects:	Discriminatory language Speech acts (Linguistics) Truth Externalism (Philosophy of mind) Expressivism (Ethics)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost