Languages have several grammatical means of expressing the relation between speaker
and addressee, including speech-style particles, politeness pronouns, allocutive marking …

Several philosophy of language scholars have recently argued that the intention to deceive
is not part of a well-defined concept of lying. So-called bald-faced lies, ie, asserting what is …

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance'do things' with conversational units of
language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocatives, interjections, and …

German adjectival and nominal compounds like ratten+ scharf ('rat sharp') sau+
schlecht,('sow bad') Hammer+ auftritt ('hammer performance'), Arsch+ gesicht ('arse face') …

Unter Hate Speech–hier übersetzt mit „Hassrede “–wird im Allgemeinen der sprachliche
Ausdruck von Hass gegen Personen oder Gruppen verstanden, insbesondere durch die …

The category of insults comprises disparaging qualifying terms, derogatory epithets,
racial/ethnic slurs and participle-like expletives. All of them channel speakers'(negative) …

In order to sketch a linguistic perspective on pejoration, let us start with some elementary
assumptions. Generally, pejoration has to do with the speaker's evaluation of something as …

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz is paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the
meaning of slurs by developing a speech-act approach to slurring. Slurs are conceived of as …

Abstract 'You bastard'is insulting because 'bastard'is an expletive, but what's wrong with 'You
Hoboken'or 'You big wet noodle'? This paper explores the semantics of a vocative …

1Universität Potsdam/2Ege Üniversitesi Izmir şis paper analyses examples of pejoration in
the dynamic multilingual setting of urban German, and their possible Turkish sources. şe …