Dualism and Monism in the Study of Slurs and Beyond

SAAB, ANDRES; ORLANDO, ELEONORA

Slurs and Expressivity. Semantics and Beyond

Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group

Lugar: Lanham; Año: 2020; p. 1 - 16

In this chapter we propose a novel classification of the main positions concerning the account of slurs, in particular, we distinguish dualist positions, inspired in Kaplan, according to which slurs have two dimensions of meaning, from monist approaches that take slurs to have only a descriptive meaning. Among the first ones, we mainly distinguish between semantic and pragmatic accounts.