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Hedger, Joseph A. 2013. Meaning and racial slurs: Derogatory epithets and the semantics/pragmatics interface. Language & Communication 33 (3) : 205–213.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

insulting | language use | pragmatics | race | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This article claims that even on the weakest hypotheses, slur words' offensiveness is more probably caused by their semantic content rather than by any pragmatic mechanism.