Slurs, Stereotypes and Insults

Acta Analytica - Tập 35 - Trang 599-621 - 2020
Eleonora Orlando1, Andrés Saab1
1National Research Council (CONICET), University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Tóm tắt

This paper is about paradigmatic slurs, i.e. expressions that are prima facie associated with the expression of a contemptuous attitude concerning a group of people identified in terms of its origin or descent (‘spic’), race (‘nigger’), sexual orientation (‘faggot’), ethnia or religion (‘kike’), gender (‘whore’), etc. Our purpose is twofold: (i) explaining their expressive meaning dimension in terms of a version of stereotype semantics and (ii) analysing their original and most typical uses as insults, which will be called with a neologism ‘insultive’, in terms of a speech act theory.

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