How slurs enact norms, and how to retract them.
The present paper considers controversial utterances that were erroneously taken as derogatory. These examples are puzzling because, despite the audiences’ error, many speakers retract and even apologise for what they didn’t say and didn’t do. In recent years, intuitions about retractions have been...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 203; no. 5; pp. 1 - 22 |
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May2024
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