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Normalizing Slurs and Out‐group Slurs: The Case of Referential Restriction
Author(s) -
Diaz Legaspe Justina
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
analytic philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2153-960X
pISSN - 2153-9596
DOI - 10.1111/phib.12129
Subject(s) - reading (process) , citation , philosophy , psychology , humanities , classics , library science , history , linguistics , computer science
Slurring pejoratives have generated an increasing interest for many different reasons. The effort put in inquiring into their derogatory force and in coming up with theories that appropriately account for their import, mechanism and impact, has resulted in a number of accounts of slurs with little in common but a couple of points. One of them is the strong association between slurring expressions and their neutral counterparts: non-derogatory co-referring expressions. It is widely accepted that neutral counterparts of slurs provide them with correct application criteria. Some authors go even further and claim that neutral counterparts are also co-referential with their associated slurs: supporters of this view assume that the difference between the N-word and ‘African-American’ does not have an impact on the truth conditions of the sentences in which they appear. Call these the Application Neutral Counterpart Thesis