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Slurring Terms Across Languages
The study of slurs has captivated philosophers and linguists, fostering a vibrant discourse in the realm of semantics and pragmatics. While the examination of slurs in Indo-European languages, particularly English, has been relatively extensive, the world of linguistics harbours a treasure trove of languages from diverse cultural backgrounds and modalities, such as sign languages, where slurs remain underexplored. This special issue endeavours to expand the horizons of slur research by shifting the focus towards languages that have seldom been discussed in the recent philosophical and semantic literature. The goal of this issue is twofold. First, it will unearth new empirical data and illuminate novel phenomena, thereby challenging existing theories of slurs. Second, it will shed new light on the semantics and philosophy of derogatory language, assuming a robustly empirical perspective.
Editors
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Isidora Stojanovic
Isidora Stojanovic is a senior researcher at the Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS, in Paris. Her research sits at the interface between philosophy of language and semantics, and combines theoretical and empirical methods. She has worked on topics such as context-dependence, indexicality, first-personal attitudes, and value jugdments, and has published articles in Erkenntnis, Inquiry, Linguistics and Philosophy, Synthese, and many other journals and collective volumes. She is an associate editor of Linguistics and Philosophy and Ergo. isidora.stojanovic@cnrs.fr
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Dan Zeman
Dan Zeman is a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences. His research area is the philosophy of language, in particular the semantics of various natural language expressions such as predicates of taste, aesthetic terms, epistemic terms, slurs and gender terms. He has published articles in Thought, Dialectica, Linguistics & Philosophy, Philosophia, Critica, Inquiry, Theoria, Pragmatics & Cognition and has contributed to numerous collective volumes edited by de Gruyter, Springer and Routledge. danczeman@gmail.com
