Robert May
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328 appearances
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first heard Jun 2015
last heard Jun 2015
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So I don't think it's just a matter of whether it's choice to be a member of this group or not.
There may be some kinds of way of characterizing some natural notion which demarcates an appropriate class of things, and this would be very interesting if it were.
Uh for sure, and I'm not disputing this, we get much more common occurrence of pejoratives over the ones which we commonly think of, ones that are applied to race, ethnicity, gender orientation, the ones we've been mentioning.
For sure.
Those certainly are the common ones.
And that might be not so much a conceptual fact or a linguistic fact, but a political and social fact about the social role that the use of these words play in society and the relationships between cultural groups within societies.
But that's a different topic than the one.
We're at least discussing at the moment.
Well, I think your question brings up a number of interesting points.
One is
What's the evolution of a pejorative term?
How does it get started?
How does it enter into the common discourse and a society?
And so on.
Secondly, what is its use by speakers in their speech acts?
What is their intention and reasons for doing it?
A third point I think which was part of what you were saying was whence its offensiveness?
What makes it offensive?
Why is it I guess it's you know, why is it the punch in the face?
Why do you find them so offensive?
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