How to do things with slurs: Studies in the way of derogatory words

By Adam M. Croom. 2013

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Linguistics

Citations in the corpus

Documenting Large Webtext Corpora: A Case Study on the Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus (2021, background): “, 2012), and who is saying certain words influences its offensiveness (e.g., the reclaimed slur “n*gga” is considered less offensive when uttered by a Black speaker than by a white speaker; Croom, 2013; Galinsky et al., 2013).”
DExperts: Decoding-Time Controlled Text Generation with Experts and Anti-Experts (2021, background): “…future work continues to better deﬁne and evaluate the presence of harmful language (e.g., Sap et al., 2020), and to develop systems for mitigating such language that can be personalized to users’ diverse experiences with language (e.g., dealing with reclaimed slurs appropriately; Croom, 2013).”
Challenges in Automated Debiasing for Toxic Language Detection (2021, background): “Additionally, this includes reclaimed slurs (queer, n*gga), which connote less offensive intent when spoken by in-group members compared to out-group members (Croom, 2013).”
How Stereotypes Are Shared Through Language: A Review and Introduction of the Social Categories and Stereotypes Communication (SCSC) Framework (2019, background): “Importantly, however, the choice to use such labels depends on social norms and whether it is considered appropriate in the communicative context (Crandall et al., 2002; Croom, 2013).”
The landscape of impoliteness research (2015, unknown): “Whilst they appear to generate impoliteness towards the targets, slurs’ functions are more diversified and are contingent on whether they are used by in-group and out-group speakers (Croom 2013).”
Documenting the English Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus (2021, background): “…context (e.g., impoliteness can serve prosocial functions; Wang et al., 2012), and who is saying certain words inﬂuences its offensiveness (e.g., the reclaimed slur “ n*gga ” is considered less offensive when uttered by a Black speaker than by a white speaker; Croom, 2013; Galinsky et al., 2013).”