SLUR RECLAMATION – POLYSEMY, ECHO, OR BOTH?

• Authors: Jusińska Zuzanna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper concerns the topic of slur reclamation. I start with presenting two seemingly opposing accounts of slur reclamation, Jeshion’s (2020) Polysemy view and Bianchi’s (2014) Echoic view. Then, using the data provided by linguists, I discuss the histories of the reclamation of the slur ‘queer’ and of the n-word, which bring me to presenting a view of reclamation that combines the Polysemy view and Echoic view. The Combined view of slur reclamation proposed in this paper postulates meaning change while fleshing out the pragmatic mechanisms necessary for it to occur.

Keywords

EN

MEANING CHANGE; PRAGMATICS; RECLAMATION; SEMANTICS; SLURS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 689 – 707

Contributors

author

Jusińska Zuzanna

• University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28310