The language of discrimination /

The language of discrimination /

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Author / Creator:	Stollznow, Karen.
Imprint:	München : Lincom GmbH, 2017.
Description:	412 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	LINCOM studies in semantics ; 07 LINCOM studies in semantics ; 07.
Subject:	Invective. Discrimination in language. Hate speech. Discrimination in language. Hate speech. Invective. Prejudices.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11051337

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ISBN:	9783862887903 3862887901
Summary:	Language is one of the main ways that discrimination is enacted. In the discourse of discrimination there is a set of key words that denote the processes of prejudice. This book discusses the lexical semantics of this field of words and how, as a cognitive process, they underlie insults, hate speech, slurs, derogatory phrases, terms of abuse and other linguistic acts of discrimination. Stollznow presents a semantic analysis employing reductive paraphrase, using data sourced from naturally occurring examples and corpora. Relevant semantic phenomena are also examined, such as synonymy, polysemy, metaphor, euphemism and dysphemism, semantic shift, pejoration, amelioration and reclamation. This book examines the way people enact racism, sexism, ageism and other forms of discrimination in language.

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Call Number:	P410.I58S865 2017
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