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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Philosophy Vol. 105; no. 8; pp. 416 - 441 |
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Journal of Philosophy Inc.
Aug2008
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