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slur: a standalone construct

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slur1 CONSTRUCTLinguistic slurPEJORATIVE TERM

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Philosophy of language

A word that derogates a social group

In philosophy of language and linguistics, a slur is a pejorative expression that derogates people on the basis of membership in a group, carrying an offensive force that seems to persist even when the word is quoted or embedded, which raises the question of where that force lives in the semantics or pragmatics. Anderson and Lepore's 2013 Slurring words argues the offence is best explained by prohibition on the words rather than by their truth-conditional content. The referent is a class of derogatory expressions and the account of their offensive force, sharing only the word with a printing smear or a musical articulation mark.[1]

Unit
The derogatory force a slurring word carries toward a target group
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Analysed through linguistic judgments of offensiveness, projection, and the behaviour of the word under quotation and embedding

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References

  1. Anderson, L., & Lepore, E. (2013). Slurring words. Noûs, 47(1), 25–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0068.2010.00820.x

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