Berkovski, Y. Sandy2018-04-122018-04-1220170302-9743http://hdl.handle.net/11693/37654Date of Conference: 20-23 June 2017Conference Name: 10th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2017For 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.EnglishSemantic propertySocial cooperationContextual elementsPredicate expressionArtificial intelligenceIndirect speechAverage speakerConference Paper10.1007/978-3-319-57837-8_53