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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Main Author: Adam M. Croom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Ampersand
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039015000041