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It's Not What You Said, It's the Way You Said It: Slurs and Conventional Implicatures

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Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies

Abstract

In this paper, I defend against a number of criticisms an account of slurs, according to which the same semantic content is expressed in the use of a slur (e.g. 'chink') as is expressed in the use of its neutral counterpart (e.g. 'Chinese'), while in addition the use of a slur conventionally implicates a negative, derogatory attitude. Along the way, I criticise competing accounts of the semantics and pragmatics of slurs, namely, Hom's 'combinatorial externalism' and Anderson and Lepore's 'prohibitionism'.

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