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History of Use Cannot Explain the Derogatory Impact of Slurs: The Case of Multimorphemic Slurs in Danish.

Various theoretical approaches have sought to account for the derogatory impact of ethnic slurs, paradigmatically exemplified by nouns such as 'Kike or 'Spic'. Content-based accounts of this derogatory impact hold that it owes to a slur's conventional content, e.g., semantic content or conventional...

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Published in:Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 91 - 103
Main Author: Petersen, Esben Nedenskov
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Mar2026
Subjects:
Taboo
Danes
Social stigma
Discriminatory language
Lexicology
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