The Semantic Pejoration of "Macho"
This paper scrutinizes the path of the semantic extension of the originally neutral Spanish term macho‘male animal’ to the pejorative ‘animal-like man’. Semantic pejoration belongs to one of the techniques that Hill (1995b) identifies when describing Mock Spanish, a type of racist discourse used by...
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| Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/5577 |