Robert May
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328 appearances
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first heard Jun 2015
last heard Jun 2015
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You bet they are.
And the question is kind of why?
And that's one of the reasons why we want to say because they mean what they mean.
That's why they're particularly suited.
But the speech acts that we're talking about are things that can be done with all sorts of languages, you know, which we don't have any particular kinds of associations that we make with these kinds of words.
These words are special.
And they're presumably loaded up because of their meaning, not simply because of the way that people go about employing them.
Every every sort of speech act that a speaker may use a pejorative term for
can be done without the use of that word.
And not even by just adding sneering tones and so on.
So I think that the question does, you know, remain a question of what we take the meaning to be.
And I think most views of pejoratives take that view.
And there are some that don't, but I think most do.
And a lot of the discussion that goes on is a discussion about where we locate that meaning and how it relates to truth conditional content.
Yeah.
Well the reclaiming or appropriation of words by targeted groups uh is you know something we can seek to describe in a number of different ways.
We can say, well, what's going on linguistically?
We can say what's going on uh sociologically, politically and so on.
I think that the main interest in this phenomenon is not particularly linguistic.
I think the main interest is political.
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