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All questions are worth equal marks. The specimen questions in this document are for general illustrative purposes. Please see the syllabus for the relevant year of examination for details of the set texts.
These various data focus our investigation around three questions: Why are some confrontations with slurs offensive? Why do some impact audiences more forcefully than others?
1 Ιουλ 2013 · Slurs are first distinguished from other terms and their role in social interaction is discussed. A new distinction is introduced between three different uses of slurs: the (a) paradigmatic derogatory use, (b) non-paradigmatic derogatory use, and (c) non-derogatory in-group use.
Engage students in a discussion by asking the following questions: Where are jokes and offensive language on the Pyramid of Hate? What is the value of the Pyramid of Hate when learning about bias and discrimination?
19 Ιουλ 2018 · The new use of slur was part of the new vocabulary of race and social diversity that entered public discourse in the 1950s and 1960s: notions like “colorblind,” “hate speech,” “racial sensitivity,” and “racism” itself, all of them connected to a sweeping revision of the framework of civic virtue. 3 The new framework implied a ...
The chapter also hints at the distinctions between different candidates for the biases of xenophobic slurs, and addresses some issues in the vicinity of the phenomenon of ‘re-appropriation’. Keywords: slurs, nondisplaceability, re-appropriation. Subject.
This chapter sketches an account of meaning in the sense of what needs to be grasped in order to be a competent speaker; and meaning in this sense is intimately connected with what determines what is “literally said” by an utterance. This provides a natural explanation of why the use of slurs gives rise to a distinctive sort of offense.
