The semantics of slurs: A refutation of coreferentialism
Coreferentialism refers to the common assumption in the literature that slurs (e.g. faggot) and descriptors (e.g. male homosexual) are coreferential expressions with precisely the same extension. For instance, Vallee (2014) recently writes that “If S is an ethnic slur in language L, then there is...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-01-01
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039015000041 |