SLURS AND EXPRESSIVITY. SEMANTICS AND BEYOND

ORLANDO, ELEONORA; SAAB, ANDRES

Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group

Lugar: Lanham (Maryland); Año: 2020 p. 215

978-1-7936-1436-0

This collection explores how the expressive import of slurs and related expressive words is semantically encoded in the grammar and how their meaning affects their use in different linguistic practices. These practices are usually, but not always, related to practices of segregation and discrimination against particular groups of human beings. Therefore, contributions to the theory of slur meaning allow for a better understanding of those practices and help find the best way to eradicate them.