Organon F
Volume 28, August 2021, Issue 3, Pages 689–707
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article | Special issue on Value in Language
Slur Reclamation – Polysemy, Echo, or Both?
Zuzanna Jusińska
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28310
This paper concerns the topic of slur reclamation. I start with presenting two seemingly opposing accounts of slur reclamation, Jeshion’s (2020) Polysemy view and Bianchi’s (2014) Echoic view. Then, using the data provided by linguists, I discuss the histories of the reclamation of the slur ‘queer’ and of the n-word, which brings me to presenting a view of reclamation that combines the Polysemy view and Echoic view. The Combined view of slur reclamation proposed in this paper postulates meaning change while fleshing out the pragmatic mechanisms necessary for it to occur.
Meaning change; pragmatics; reclamation; semantics; slurs.
Author
Zuzanna Jusińska 
Affiliation
University of Warsaw
Address
University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland
Received
18 November 2020
Accepted
8 August 2021
Published online
30 August 2021
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Jusińska, Z. (2021). Slur Reclamation – Polysemy, Echo, or Both? Organon F, 28(3), 689–707. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28310
Chicago
Jusińska, Zuzanna. 2021. "Slur Reclamation – Polysemy, Echo, or Both?" Organon F 28 (3): 689–707. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28310
Harvard
Jusińska, Z. (2021). Slur Reclamation – Polysemy, Echo, or Both? Organon F, 28(3), pp. 689–707. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28310
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