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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/slurs-roles-power/
SUMMARY:Slurs: Roles & Power
DESCRIPTION:Slurring is a kind of hate speech that has various effects. Not
 able among these is variable offence. Slurs vary in offence across words\;
  across uses\; and across audience members. These types of variability are
 n&rsquo\;t elegantly explained by extant theories of slurs\, \, although t
 hey leave room for such explanations. This is\, I claim\, because &nbsp\;t
 hose theories are linguistic\, and variable offence falls outside the expl
 anatory scope of linguistic mechanisms. Instead\, variable offence is larg
 ely determined by sociological facts. I propose a mechanism that explains 
 variable offence in terms of the sociological phenomenon of social power. 
 The mechanism is based on the notion that some slurs implicate a low power
  role for the target\, thus seeking to create a power imbalance between sp
 eaker and target. The result of this is that the degree of offence is larg
 ely proportional to the extent of the power imbalance attempted. The speak
 er implicates information about the level of power associated with a socia
 l role they regard the target as filling. In so doing they also assign an 
 equivalent discourse role. This discourse role carries with it a commensur
 ate level of power in the discourse. Thus\, during direct uses a slurring 
 utterance is a discourse move that alters the discourse role of the target
 . I finally show how this single mechanism elegantly explains three types 
 of variable offence. It also explains two other effects of slurring uttera
 nces: silencing and reclamation.  
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia UB
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