What is it about?
Ethnic slur terms (nigger, kike, kraut) and other group-based slurs (faggot, spaz) negatively refer to certain groups of people, they are a typical feature of hate speech contexts where they serve xenophobic speakers in expressing their hatred for an entire group of people. However, slur terms are actually far more frequently used in other contexts and are more often exchanged among friends than between enemies. Authentic examples of use and frequency estimates from empirical research will help provide accurate definitions and insight into these different modes of use.
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Why is it important?
The study seems particularly relevant at a time when fascism and hate crimes are on the rise.
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This page is a summary of: Going beyond hate speech: The pragmatics of ethnic slur terms, Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, June 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2018-0002.
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