ABSTRACT

The ‘prohibitionist’ idea that slurs have the same linguistic properties as their neutral counterparts hasn’t received much support in the literature. Here I offer a modified version of prohibitionism, according to which the taboo on using slurs is part of their conventional meaning. I conclude with explanations of the behaviour of slurs in embedded constructions.

中文翻译：

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诽谤、同义词和禁忌

摘要

“禁止主义”的观点认为，诽谤性语言与中性语言具有相同的语言特性，但这一观点在文献中并没有得到太多支持。在这里，我提供了禁止主义的修改版本，根据该版本，使用诽谤性语言的禁忌是其传统意义的一部分。最后我解释了嵌入结构中连线的行为。