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What is a slur?
(Springer, 2019-02)
Although there seems to be an agreement on what slurs are, many authors diverge when it comes to classify some words as such. Hence, many debates would benefit from a technical definition of this term that would allow ...
Dualism and Monism in the Study of Slurs and Beyond
(Lexington Books, 2021)
In this chapter we propose a novel classification of the main positions concerning the account of slurs, in particular, we distinguish dualist positions, inspired in Kaplan, according to which slurs have two dimensions of ...
Normalizing Slurs and Out-group Slurs: The Case of Referential Restriction
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2018-06)
A bidimensional account of slurs
(Lexington Books, 2020)
Working within a bidimensional semantic framework derivative of Gutzmann (Use-Conditional Meaning, OUP, 2015), I focus on the systematic ambiguity of some slurs ascriptions. I argue that the semantic type of a slur's ...
Slurs and register: A case study in meaning pluralism
(Wiley, 2019-05)
Most theories of slurs fall into two families: Those which understand slurring terms to involve special descriptive/informational content (however conveyed), and those which understand them to encode special emotive/expressive ...
On the Moral Import of Using Slurs
(Lexington Books, 2021)
In this chapter I examine the thesis that there is a theoretically interesting relation between the semantic account of slurs, namely, expressions such as "spic", "nigger", "faggot", "dyke", "kike", "whore", etc. and the ...
A Stereotype Semantics for Syntactically Ambiguous Slurs
(Wiley, 2020-06)
This paper is about group slurs, i.e., expressions that are prima facie associated with the speaker?s conveyance of contemptuous or derogatory feelings for the members of a certain group of people identified in terms of ...
Slurs, Stereotypes and Insults
(Springer, 2020-12)
This paper is about paradigmatic slurs, i.e. expressions that are prima facie associated with the expression of a contemptuous attitude concerning a group of people identified in terms of its origin or descent (‘spic’), ...
Epítetos e insultos de grupo en español: Sobre una ambigüedad y sus implicaciones sintáctico-semánticas
(De Gruyter, 2021-05)
En esta contribución, profundizamos sobre una ambigüedad sintáctica entre insultos de grupo y epítetos observada originalmente en Orlando y Saab (en prensa). Aquí, discutimos en detalle las consecuencias teóricas de tal ...
Paradoxo da palavra "negro" no Brasil: identidade social, injúria racial, violência simbólicaThe paradox of the "N-word" in Brazil: social identity, racial slur, symbolic violence
(Universidade Federal de UberlândiaBrasilPrograma de Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais, 2022)