The Pragmatics of Slurs

By Renée Jorgensen Bolinger. 2017

143 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6025cb78139cd2b1d1fc7d2ba7d1a5f612ae2ece

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1. Jordan Sanders
2. Melissa Robinson
3. Alexis Palmer
4. Christine V. Carr

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1. Alexis Palmer

Citations in the corpus

• COLD: Annotation scheme and evaluation data set for complex offensive language in English (2020, background): “Bolinger (2017) proposes that all slurs have five characteristics in common: they are offensive even when the speaker does not intend them to be, they are offensive even to hearers who are not being targeted, they carry derogatory cultural meanings, they do not all appear to be equally offensive on…”