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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Published in:	Journal of Philosophy Vol. 105; no. 8; pp. 416 - 441
Main Author:	Hom, Christopher
Format:	Article
Published:	Journal of Philosophy Inc. Aug2008
Subjects:	Epithets Historical linguistics Semantics Ethnicity African Americans Group identity Comparative linguistics Demographic characteristics Race relations
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