What is it about?
This paper argues that pejorative language use is not like fictional language use by pointing to three different kind of constructions of sentences using fictional names. This undermines fictionalism about pejorative discourse, like Hom & May's.
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Why is it important?
The paper offers arguments against so-called 'semantic accounts' of the meaning of pejoratives and slurs.
Perspectives
I think this article offers a different perspective on what distinguishes between derogatory and non-derogatory uses of slurs and pejoratives, and it shows the limits of some existing explanations of that distinction.
Dr Teresa Marques
Universitat de Barcelona
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This page is a summary of: Pejorative Discourse Is Not Fictional, Thought A Journal of Philosophy, October 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/tht3.258.
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