Racial epithets, characterizations, and slurs

Analysis and Metaphysics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-24

  Croom, Adam M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Characterizations; Epithets; Metaphors; Pragmatics; Semantics; Slurs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893367907     PISSN: 15848574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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