GROUP PEJORATIVES AND HATE SPEECH
Keywords:
Slurs, Hate Speech, Semantics, PragmaticsAbstract
The article advances a multidimensional semantics for slurs, according to which they express a standard at-issue content along with a conventional implicature. By contrast with existent conventional implicature accounts (McCready 2010), it is argued that the not at-issue content of slurs is a property, instead of a proposition. When complemented with a dynamic pragmatic framework (Portner 2004), the view implies that an utterance containing a slur carries two different discursive functions, that is, it updates two different components of context: the at-issue content updates the common ground; the not at-issue content updates the To-Do List. It is then showed how the view explains the way in which uses of slurs are capable of modifying permissibility facts and hence of bringing harm to their targets. Finally, the article shows how the present account deals with different conversational moves that slurs make available like that of propaganda, attack, complicity or appropriation.
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