The Derogatory Force and the Offensiveness of Slurs

Slurs are both derogatory and offensive, and they are said to exhibit “derogatory force” and “offensiveness.” Almost all theories of slurs, except the truth-conditional content theory and the invocational content theory, conflate these two features and use “derogatory force” and “offensiveness” inte...

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Published in:	Organon F
Main Author:	Chang Liu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 2021-08-01
Subjects:	derogation expressives offense pejoratives slurs speech acts
Online Access:	https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/09211827orgf.2021.28307.pdf

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