A puzzle about pejoratives.
Pejoratives are the class of expressions that are meant to insult or disparage. They include swear words and slurs. These words allow speakers to convey emotional states beyond the truth-conditional contents that they are normally taken to encode. The puzzle arises because, although pejoratives seem...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 159; no. 3; pp. 383 - 406 |
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Springer Nature
Jul2012
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