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- The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Philosophy of Language: Definitions, Disciplines, and Approaches
- Part I The Past, Present, and Future of Philosophy of Language
- Part II Some Foundational Issues
- Part III From Truth to Vagueness
- Part IV Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics
- 17 Entailment, Presupposition, Implicature
- 18 Speech Acts, Actions, and Events
- 19 Propositions, Predication, and Assertion
- 20 Events in Semantics
- 21 Semantics and Generative Grammar
- 22 Metasemantics: A Normative Perspective (and the Case of Mood)
- 23 The Normativity of Meaning and Content
- 24 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Value Judgments
- 25 Slurs: Semantic and Pragmatic Theories of Meaning
- Part V Philosophical Implications and Linguistic Theories
- Part VI Some Extensions
- References
- Index
25 - Slurs: Semantic and Pragmatic Theories of Meaning
from Part IV - Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Philosophy of Language: Definitions, Disciplines, and Approaches
- Part I The Past, Present, and Future of Philosophy of Language
- Part II Some Foundational Issues
- Part III From Truth to Vagueness
- Part IV Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics
- 17 Entailment, Presupposition, Implicature
- 18 Speech Acts, Actions, and Events
- 19 Propositions, Predication, and Assertion
- 20 Events in Semantics
- 21 Semantics and Generative Grammar
- 22 Metasemantics: A Normative Perspective (and the Case of Mood)
- 23 The Normativity of Meaning and Content
- 24 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Value Judgments
- 25 Slurs: Semantic and Pragmatic Theories of Meaning
- Part V Philosophical Implications and Linguistic Theories
- Part VI Some Extensions
- References
- Index
Summary
In a semi-technical sense which has developed recently in philosophical literature, the term slurs denotes ‘lexical items’, which are ‘conventionally pejorative’, refer to ‘social groups’ and convey ‘derogation’ and ‘negative attitudes’ toward those groups and their members. The paradigmatic examples of slurs include racist epithets such as nigger, chink, anti-Semitic ones like kike, or homophobic ones like faggot.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language , pp. 450 - 466Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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