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      A contextualist analysis of insults

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      Author(s)
      Berkovski, Y. Sandy
      Date
      2017
      Source Title
      Modeling and Using Context: Proceedings of the 10th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2017
      Print ISSN
      0302-9743
      Publisher
      Springer
      Pages
      661 - 674
      Language
      English
      Type
      Conference Paper
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      Abstract
      For a predicate expression F contained in a sentence S (‘x is F’) to count as an insult, it should be used in a situation having a number of contextual elements. There should be an audience to whom the utterance of S is addressed. There should be a target of the insult, an individual who the speaker wishes to be shunned, excluded from certain, more or less salient, forms of social cooperation. The purpose of the utterance of S is to persuade the audience, by appeal to their emotions, to shun the target. Slurs have the canonical occasions of use structurally identical to the occasions of insults.
      Keywords
      Semantic property
      Social cooperation
      Contextual elements
      Predicate expression
      Artificial intelligence
      Indirect speech
      Average speaker
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/37654
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57837-8_53
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