Meaning and racial slurs: Derogatory epithets and the semantics/pragmatics interface

Language and Communication

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 205-213

  Hedger, Joseph A ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventional implicature; Natural language semantics; Philosophy of language; Pragmatics; Semantics; Slurs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878786274     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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