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776More on pejorative language: insults that go beyond their extensionSynthese 198 (10): 9139-9164. 2020.Slurs have become a big topic of discussion both in philosophy and in linguistics. Slurs are usually characterised as pejorative terms, co-extensional with other, neutral, terms referring to ethnic or social groups. However, slurs are not the only ethnic/social words with pejorative senses. Our aim in this paper is to introduce a different kind of pejoratives, which we will call “ethnic/social terms used as insults”, as exemplified in Spanish, though present in many other languages and mostly ab…Read more
Katherine Fraser
Universidad Del País Vasco
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Universidad Del País VascoDoctoral student