THE SEMANTICS OF RACIAL EPITHETS.

The article presents an analysis on how racial epithets works as derogatory expressions and as semantic strategy. Racial epithets conveys derogatory content towards their subjects. The two competing strategies for explaining how epithets work include the semantic and the pragmatic. An analysis is pr...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Philosophy Vol. 105; no. 8; pp. 416 - 441
Autor principal:	Hom, Christopher
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Journal of Philosophy Inc. Aug2008
Materias:	Epithets Historical linguistics Semantics Ethnicity African Americans Group identity Comparative linguistics Demographic characteristics Race relations
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