Provocative Vocatives: Slurs as Expressives.

Fifty years ago, Zwicky demonstrated the slur‐neutral counterpart vocative divergence thesis (SNCVD):Slurs occur freely as vocatives. Neutral counterparts do not. In this article, I craft a novel problem for theories of slurs. The Vocatives Problem is the challenge to explain the SNCVD. I argue that...

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Publicado en:	Philosophical Perspectives Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 41 - 54
Autor principal:	Jeshion, Robin
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Dec2024
Materias:	Expressive language Contempt (Attitude) Semantics Linguistics Discriminatory language Pragmatics Speech acts (Linguistics)
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