It's not what you said, it's the way you said it: slurs and conventional implicatures

In this paper, I defend against a number of criticisms an account of slurs, according to which the same semantic content is expressed in the use of a slur (e.g. 'chink') as is expressed in the use of its neutral counterpart (e.g. 'Chinese'), while in addition the use of a slur co...

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Main Author: Whiting, Daniel (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013-09.
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