Names: Beaver, David I., 1966–author.| Stanley, Jason, author. Title: The politics of
language/David Beaver, Jason Stanley. Description: Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton …

In this article, I argue that hate speech expresses hate, and I answer some objections to
expressivist views. First, I briefly comment on some limitations of pragmatic accounts of …

In this paper, I develop an essentialist model of the semantics of slurs. I defend the view that
slurs are a species of kind terms: Slur concepts encode mini-theories which represent an …

What is the relation between language, communication, and values? In Slurs and Thick
Terms: When Language Encodes Values, Bianca Cepollaro explores the ways in which …

argued that a different dimension of expressive meaning (“use-conditional”, as opposed to
truth-conditional) is required to characterize the meaning of pejoratives, including slurs and …

In this article we develop a taxonomy of emotional injustice: what occurs when the treatment
of emotions is unjust, or emotions are used to treat people unjustly. After providing an …

In her chapter,“Pejoratives”, Robin Jeshion distinguishes pejorative lexical items (including
slurs like the n-word and suffixes like-tard) from pejorative uses of words (like boy used to …

The aim of this paper is to provide arguments based on linguistic evidence that discard a
truth-conditional analysis of slurs (TCA) and pave the way for more promising approaches …

Theories of slurs aim to explain how–via semantics, pragmatics, or other mechanisms–
speakers who use slurs convey that targets are inferior persons. I present two novel …

In recent years, the removal of monuments which glorify historical figures associated with
racism and colonialism has become one of the most visible and contested forms of …