Publications

Publication details [#60039]

Croom, Adam M. 2015. Slurs and stereotypes for Italian Americans: A context-sensitive account of derogation and appropriation. Journal of Pragmatics 81 : 36–51.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | insulting | pragmatics | psychological explanation | stereotype

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This systematic, empirically informed inquiry offers a context-sensitive, family resemblance account of denigratory and appropriative uses of slurs for Italian Americans, explaining many of their psychological effects on both users and targets.