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| slurs in sign language: Nine Nasty Words John McWhorter, 2023-10-10 The New York Times bestseller now in paperback. One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues curse words with such power--and why we love them so much. Profanity has always been a deliciously vibrant part of our lexicon, an integral part of being human. In fact, our ability to curse comes from a different part of the brain than other parts of speech--the urgency with which we say f&*k! is instead related to the instinct that tells us to flee from danger. Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic. In a particularly coarse moment, when the public discourse is shaped in part by once-shocking words, nothing could be timelier. |
| slurs in sign language: Slurs and Thick Terms Bianca Cepollaro, 2020-08-31 What is the relation between language, communication, and values? In Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values, Bianca Cepollaro explores the ways in which certain pieces of evaluative language not only reflect speakers’ moral perspectives, but also contribute to promoting their evaluative stance. She focuses on slurs—the prototypical example of hate speech, including racial and homophobic epithets—and so-called thick terms, that is, those expressions, much discussed in metaethics, that mix description and evaluation such as lewd, chaste, generous, or selfish. This book argues that in employing such terms, speakers not only say something purely factual about people and things, but also presuppose certain values, as if they were common ground among the conversation participants. Cepollaro illustrates how this linguistic mechanism effectively explains the pervasive social and moral effects of evaluative language. Using a multidisciplinary approach, she tackles issues in philosophy of language, linguistics, ethics, and metaethics. Moreover, the theoretical investigation takes into consideration and discusses empirical data from psychology and experimental philosophy. |
| slurs in sign language: Just Words Mary Kate McGowan, 2019-01-31 We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms about? Mary Kate McGowan identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech constitutes, rather than merely causes, harm. She argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm. McGowan illustrates this theory by considering many categories of speech including sexist remarks, racist hate speech, pornography, verbal triggers for stereotype threat, micro-aggressions, political dog whistles, slam poetry, and even the hanging of posters. Just Words explores a variety of harms - such as oppression, subordination, discrimination, domination, harassment, and marginalization - and ways in which these harms can be remedied. |
| slurs in sign language: Slurs and Expressivity Eleonora Orlando, Andrés Saab, 2021-04-20 Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by Eleonora Orlando and Andres Saab,focuses on the analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words, namely, those words prima facie related to the conveyance of contemptuous or derogatory feelings for the members of a certain group of people identified in terms of their ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, political ideology, and other personal qualities. In as far as they are used to express emotional attitudes, slurs are, thus, a kind of expressive words. This collection provides different hypotheses regarding the way in which the expressive import of slurs and other related expressive words is semantically encoded in the grammar and how their meaning impacts other aspects related to their use in different practices of linguistic communication. These linguistic practices are usually, but not always, related to segregation and discrimination of particular human groups. Therefore, any contribution to the theory of slur meaning is, directly or indirectly, also a contribution to a better understanding of those practices and to finding the best way to eradicate them. |
| slurs in sign language: What the F Benjamin K. Bergen, 2016-09-13 It may be starred, beeped, and censored -- yet profanity is so appealing that we can't stop using it. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains. Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we'll mutter in relief seconds after they fall asleep. Swearing, it seems, is an intimate part of us that we have decided to selectively deny. That's a damn shame. Swearing is useful. It can be funny, cathartic, or emotionally arousing. As linguist and cognitive scientist Benjamin K. Bergen shows us, it also opens a new window onto how our brains process language and why languages vary around the world and over time. In this groundbreaking yet ebullient romp through the linguistic muck, Bergen answers intriguing questions: How can patients left otherwise speechless after a stroke still shout Goddamn! when they get upset? When did a cock grow to be more than merely a rooster? Why is crap vulgar when poo is just childish? Do slurs make you treat people differently? Why is the first word that Samoan children say not mommy but eat shit? And why do we extend a middle finger to flip someone the bird? Smart as hell and funny as fuck, What the F is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to know how and why we swear. |
| slurs in sign language: An Encyclopedia of Swearing Geoffrey Hughes, 2015-03-26 This is the only encyclopedia and social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English, the different major global varieties, such as Australian, Canadian, South African, and Caribbean English are also covered. A-Z entries cover the full range of swearing and foul language in English, including fascinating details on the history and origins of each term and the social context in which it found expression. Categories include blasphemy, obscenity, profanity, the categorization of women and races, and modal varieties, such as the ritual insults of Renaissance flyting and modern sounding or playing the dozens. Entries cover the historical dimension of the language, from Anglo-Saxon heroic oaths and the surprising power of medieval profanity, to the strict censorship of the Renaissance and the vibrant, modern language of the streets. Social factors, such as stereotyping, xenophobia, and the dynamics of ethnic slurs, as well as age and gender differences in swearing are also addressed, along with the major taboo words and the complex and changing nature of religious, sexual, and racial taboos. |
| slurs in sign language: Lip slurs for tuba Deanna Swoboda, 2015 (Meredith Music Resource). Until now, there has not been a bass clef tuba book entirely dedicated to the lip slur. Lip slurs are specific exercises designed to develop flexibility and are essential in building strength and developing technique. This collection of lip slurs, offering exercises for multiple stages of ability and development, serves both young tuba students and more advanced players. It will surely improve the playing of all tuba players! |
| slurs in sign language: On the Offensive Karen Stollznow, 2020 You people ... She was asking for it ... That's so gay ... Don't be a Jew ... My ex-girlfriend is crazy ... You'd be pretty if you lost weight ... You look good ... for your age ... These statements can be offensive to some people, but it is complicated to understand exactly why. It is often difficult to recognize the veiled racism, sexism, ableism, lookism, ageism, and other -isms that hide in our everyday language. From an early age, we learn and normalize many words and phrases that exclude groups of people and reinforce bias and social inequality. Our language expresses attitudes and beliefs that can reveal internalized discrimination, prejudice, and intolerance. Some words and phrases are considered to be offensive, even if we're not trying to be-- |
| slurs in sign language: The Everyday Language of White Racism Jane H. Hill, 2009-01-30 In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hillprovides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal theunderlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate inAmerican culture. provides a detailed background on the theory of race andracism reveals how racializing discourse—talk and text thatproduces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people tothem—facilitates a victim-blaming logic integrates a broad and interdisciplinary range of literaturefrom sociology, social psychology, justice studies, critical legalstudies, philosophy, literature, and other disciplines that havestudied racism, as well as material from anthropology andsociolinguistics Part of the ahref=http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-410785.htmltarget=_blankBlackwell Studies in Discourse and CultureSeries/a |
| slurs in sign language: New Work on Speech Acts Daniel Fogal, Daniel W. Harris, Matt Moss, 2018-07-11 Speech-act theory is the interdisciplinary study of the wide range of things we do with words. Originally stemming from the influential work of twentieth-century philosophers, including J. L. Austin and Paul Grice, recent years have seen a resurgence of work on the topic. On one hand, a new generation of linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists have made impressive progress toward reverse-engineering the psychological underpinnings that allow us to do so much with language. Meanwhile, speech-act theory has been used to enrich our understanding of pressing social issues that include freedom of speech, racial slurs, and the duplicity of political discourse. This volume presents fourteen new essays by many of the philosophers and linguists who have led this resurgence. The topics span a methodological range that includes formal semantics and pragmatics, foundational issues about the nature of linguistic representation, and work on a variety of forms of indirect and/or uncooperative speech that occupies the intersection of the philosophy of language, ethics, and political philosophy. Several of the contributions demonstrate the benefits of integrating the methodologies and perspectives of these literatures. The essays are framed by a comprehensive introductory survey of the contemporary literature written by the editors. |
| slurs in sign language: Handbook of Pragmatics Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke, 2022-11-15 This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995. Also available as Online Resource: https://benjamins.com/online/hop |
| slurs in sign language: Handbook of Pragmatics Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke, Frank Brisard, 2023-10-15 This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995. Also available as Online Resource: https://benjamins.com/online/hop |
| slurs in sign language: Dangerous Jokes Claire Horisk, 2024 Dangerous Jokes develops a new theory about how humor in ordinary conversations communicates prejudice and reinforces social hierarchies, drawing on the author's expertise in philosophy of language and on evidence from sociology, law and cognitive science. It explains why jokes are more powerful than ordinary speech at conveying demeaning messages, and it gives a new account of listening, addressing the morality of telling, listening to, being amused by, and laughing at demeaning jokes. |
| slurs in sign language: Thick Concepts Simon Kirchin, 2013-04-25 What is the difference between judging someone to be good and judging them to be kind? Both judgements are typically positive, but the latter seems to offer more description of the person: we get a more specific sense of what they are like. Very general evaluative concepts (such as good, bad, right and wrong) are referred to as thin concepts, whilst more specific ones (including brave, rude, gracious, wicked, sympathetic, and mean) are termed thick concepts. In this volume, an international team of experts addresses the questions that this distinction opens up. How do the descriptive and evaluative functions or elements of thick concepts combine with each other? Are these functions or elements separable in the first place? Is there a sharp division between thin and thick concepts? Can we mark interesting further distinctions between how thick ethical concepts work and how other thick concepts work, such as those found in aesthetics and epistemology? How, if at all, are thick concepts related to reasons and action? These questions, and others, touch on some of the deepest philosophical issues about the evaluative and normative. They force us to think hard about the place of the evaluative in a (seemingly) nonevaluative world, and raise fascinating issues about how language works. |
| slurs in sign language: Racial Slurs & Discrimination: Is It Real Or Imaginary? Melba Thomas, 2008-04 There is a hidden message behind all the mess of racial slurs and discrimination. Everyone is looking at it from one perspective only, which is the secular perspective. Melba comes with a different perspective inside her book, Racial Slurs & Discrimination Is It Real or Is It Imaginary. Inside the book you are given examples of why it is happening, and what we can do in our communities, our society, and our nation to fight this ever-present threat. You can answer the question Is It Real Or Is It Imaginary. If you are able to figure out the hidden message inside of this book, then to God is the glory. Author Melba Thomas is new on the horizon, but she has a powerful message. She is the mother of three, and a grandmother of three. Melba is not married, but she does have a very special person in her life. She is a very active member in her church, and she is also a coordinator of one of the many ministries at her church. Melba holds an Associate Degree in Substance Abuse and she is currently working in that field to help others. She currently resides in Beaumont, Texas. 1. Current Events-Race Relations 2. Politics |
| slurs in sign language: How to Be a (Young) Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi, Nic Stone, 2023-09-12 The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now in paperback for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide for teens seeking a way forward in acknowledging, identifying, and dismantling racism and injustice. The New York Times bestseller How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi is shaping the way a generation thinks about race and racism. How to be a (Young) Antiracist is a dynamic reframing of the concepts shared in the adult book, with young adulthood front and center. Aimed at readers 12 and up, and co-authored by award-winning children's book author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist empowers teen readers to help create a more just society. Antiracism is a journey--and now young adults will have a map to carve their own path. Kendi and Stone have revised this work to provide anecdotes and data that speaks directly to the experiences and concerns of younger readers, encouraging them to think critically and build a more equitable world in doing so. |
| slurs in sign language: Handbook of Pragmatics Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, 2022-08-15 The Manual section of the Handbook of Pragmatics, produced under the auspices of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), is a collection of articles describing traditions, methods, and notational systems relevant to the field of linguistic pragmatics; the main body of the Handbook contains all topical articles. The first edition of the Manual was published in 1995. This second edition includes a large number of new traditions and methods articles from the 24 annual installments of the Handbook that have been published so far. It also includes revised versions of some of the entries in the first edition. In addition, a cumulative index provides cross-references to related topical entries in the annual installments of the Handbook and the Handbook of Pragmatics Online (at https://benjamins.com/online/hop/), which continues to be updated and expanded. This second edition of the Manual is intended to facilitate access to the most comprehensive resource available today for any scholar interested in pragmatics as defined by the International Pragmatics Association: “the science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on language and communication.” |
| slurs in sign language: Unkind Words Irving L. Allen, 1990-08-27 Examines the traditional slurs in American vernaculars and the order of ethnic labeling. |
| slurs in sign language: The Behavior of Social Justice Natalie Parks, Francesca Barbieri, Ryan Sain, Shawn Thomas Capell, Beverly Kirby, 2024-10-01 This seminal work utilizes the principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA) to understand people’s actions. It provides a framework for the study of social injustices that moves beyond just condemning others for their oppressive behaviors, outlining solutions that help work towards a more socially just society. Divided across three main sections, the book outlines the basic principles of applied behavior analysis, considers key tenets of social justice work, and examines how social justice work can be carried out on an individual and a wider institutional level. The first section focuses on the principles of behavior and how it expounds on the causes, reasons, and purposes behind one’s actions. The subsequent sections pay particular attention to how prejudice, stereotypes, and bias play out in society, and how prejudices and biases make us more likely to participate in social injustices. The third section provides a behavioral description of various -isms and discusses the difference between -isms and individual behaviors, before exploring common -isms. The book concludes with an analysis of the reasons behind their persistence, followed by solutions that can be embraced by people. Packed with case studies and reflective questions, The Behavior of Social Justice is an essential reading for students and scholars of behavioral sciences, psychology, sociology and education, as well as academics and researchers interested in the study of social justice. |
| slurs in sign language: Acting White Ron Christie, 2010-10-12 In the tradition of Randall Kennedy's Nigger and Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character, Acting White demonstrates how the charge that any African-American who is successful, well mannered, or well educated is acting white, is a slur that continues to haunt blacks. Ron Christie traces the complex history of the phrase, from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the tensions between Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X to Bill Cosby's controversial NAACP speech in 2004. The author also writes candidly of being challenged by black students for his acting white, and also of being labeled a race traitor in Congress by daring to be Republican. This lucid chronicle reveals how this prevalent put-down sets back much of the hard-earned progress for all blacks in American society. Deftly argued and determinedly controversial, this book is certain to spur thoughtful discussion for years to come. |
| slurs in sign language: Dirty Sign Language Van James T, Allison O, 2011-06-07 GET D RTY Next time you're signing with your friends, drop the ASL textbook formality and start flashing the signs they don't teach in any classroom, including: - cool slang - funny insults - explicit sex terms - raw swear words Dirty Sign Language teaches casual everyday words and expressions like: - Peace out - Asshole. - Bit me - Dumbfuck - Boner - I'm hung like a horse. |
| slurs in sign language: Dude, You're a Fag C. J. Pascoe, 2012 Draws on eighteen months of research in a racially diverse working-class high school to explore the meaning of masculinity and the social practices associated with it, discussing how homophobia is used to enforce gender conformity. |
| slurs in sign language: The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language Keith Allan, 2019 This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe taboo words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. It examines topics such as impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy. |
| slurs in sign language: Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language Emma Byrne, 2018-01-23 Entertaining and thought-provoking…Byrne’s enthusiasm for her esoteric subject is contagious, damn it. —Melissa Dahl, New York Times Book Review In this sparkling debut work of popular science, Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you. She explores every angle of swearing—why we do it, how we do it, and what it tells us about ourselves. Packed with the results of unlikely and often hilarious scientific studies—from the “ice-bucket test” for coping with pain, to the connection between Tourette’s and swearing, to a chimpanzee that curses at her handler in sign language—Swearing Is Good for You presents a lighthearted but convincing case for the foulmouthed. |
| slurs in sign language: Hands of My Father Myron Uhlberg, 2009-02-03 By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face. Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English—and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life. These two remarkable people married and had children at the absolute bottom of the Great Depression—an expression of extraordinary optimism, and typical of the joy and resilience they were able to summon at even the darkest of times. From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field, where he watches his father’s hero Jackie Robinson play ball, from the branch library above the local Chinese restaurant where the odor of chow mein rose from the pages of the books he devoured to the hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend, this is a memoir filled with stories about growing up not just as the child of two deaf people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid during the remarkably eventful period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early fifties. From the Hardcover edition. |
| slurs in sign language: Slang and Euphemism Richard A. Spears, 2001 A lexicon of improper English From slang terminology describing various bodily functions and sexual acts, to the centuries-old cant of thieves and prostitutes, to the language of the modern drug culture, here are 14, 500 entries and 32, 000 definitions of all the words and expressions so carefully omitted from standard dictionaries and polite conversation. Extensively cross-referenced for easy access, this third abridged edition contains almost 300 new entries and definitions. So whether you're a writer seeking to create a more authentic dialogue, a crossword-puzzle addict in search of an obscure eighteenth-century expression, or a reader interested in the more colorful aspects of the English language, you'll find that a wealth of words awaits you in... Slang and Euphemism |
| slurs in sign language: Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines Lisa C. Ruchti, 2012-02-11 Every day, hospital nurses must negotiate intimate trust and intimate conflict in an effort to provide quality health care. However, interactions between nurses and patients—which often require issues of privacy—are sometimes made more uncomfortable with inappropriate behavior, as when a patient has a racist and/or sexist outburst. Not all nurses are prepared to handle such intimacy, but they can all learn how to be caring. In Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines, Lisa Ruchti carefully examines this fragile relationship between intimacy and professional care, and provides a language for patients, nurses, and administrators to teach, conduct, and advocate for knowledgeable and skilled intimate care in a hospital setting. She also recommends best training practices and practical and effective policy changes to handle conflicts. Ruchti shows that caring is not just a personality characteristic but is work that is structured by intersections of race, gender, and nationality. |
| slurs in sign language: Translation and Censorship Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, 2009 Who are the censors of foreign literature? What motives influence them as they patrol the boundaries between cultures? Can cuts and changes sometimes save a book? What difference does it make when the text is for children, or designed for schools? These and other questions are explored in this wide-ranging international collection, with copious examples: from Catullus to Quixote, Petrarch to Shakespeare, Wollstonecraft to Waugh, Apuleius to Mansfield, how have migrating writers fared? We see many genres, from Celtic hero-tales to histories, autobiographies, polemics and even popular songs, transformed on their travels by the censor's hand.--BOOK JACKET. |
| slurs in sign language: Distressing Language Michael Davidson, 2022-04-19 This book is about the role of disability and deafness in contemporary aesthetics and how physical and intellectual difference challenges generic terms for art and poetry. The book's title combines language that disturbs or causes anxiety with language that is ripped, worn, or damaged. This interplay brings together the social environment in which language is exchanged with the materiality of words that frustrate easy comprehension. Where hearing and speaking are considered normative conditions of the human, what happens when words are misheard and misspoken? How have writers and artists, both disabled and non-disabled, used error as generative elements in contesting the presumed value of sounding good? This book grows out of the author's experience of hearing loss in which misunderstandings have become a daily occurrence. Deafness becomes a guide in each chapter in considering how verbal confusions are less an aberration in understanding than a component of new knowledge-- |
| slurs in sign language: The Everyday Language of White Racism Jane H. Hill, 2011-09-15 In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture. provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racism reveals how racializing discourse—talk and text that produces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people to them—facilitates a victim-blaming logic integrates a broad and interdisciplinary range of literature from sociology, social psychology, justice studies, critical legal studies, philosophy, literature, and other disciplines that have studied racism, as well as material from anthropology and sociolinguistics Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series |
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| slurs in sign language: New Geographies of Race and Racism Caroline Bressey, 2016-04-29 In recent years geographers interested in ethnicity, 'race' and racism have extended their focus from examining geographies of segregation and racism to exploring cultural politics, social practice and everyday geographies of identity and experience. This edited collection illustrates this new work and includes research on youth and new ethnicities; the contested politics of 'race' and racism; intersections of ethnicity, religion and 'race' and the theorisation and interrogation of whiteness. Case studies from the UK and Ireland focus on the intersections of 'race' and nation and the specificities of place in discourses of racilisation and identity. A key feature of the book is its engagement with a range of methodological approaches to examining the significance of race including ethnography, visual methodologies and historical analysis. |
| slurs in sign language: American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang, 2006-09-06 A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax. American Born Chinese is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core Connections |
| slurs in sign language: A Slap in the Face William B. Irvine, 2017 n A Slap in the Face, William Irvine undertakes a wide-ranging investigation of insults, their history, the role they play in social relationships, and the science behind them. He offers advice, based primarily on the writings of the Stoic philosophers, on how best to curb our own insulting tendencies and how to respond to the insults that are directed our way. A rousing follow-up to The Good Life, A Slap in the Face will interest anyone who's ever delivered an insult or felt the sting of one--in other words, everyone. |
| slurs in sign language: To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, 2014-07-08 Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime. |
| slurs in sign language: Words Matter Sally McConnell-Ginet, 2020-08-27 Featuring current and historical concrete examples and minimising technical vocabulary, Words Matter is for all interested in examining ideas about language and its connections to social conflict and change. Accessible to general readers, the book will also be useful in linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, or other classes featuring language. |
| slurs in sign language: Figures of Interpretation B.A.S.S. Meier-Lorente-Muth-Duchêne, 2021-02-05 This ground-breaking book assembles 31 portraits of people who interpret languages, cultures and situations, and offers graphic interpretations of their collective experience. Their individual stories are part of the larger history of interpreters, interpretation and interpretive readings, and they demonstrate how language intersects with race, class, gender and geopolitical inequalities. The book allows the unexpected to unfold by passing control from the writers to the reader, who will see connections and ruptures unfold between space, time and class while never losing sight of the materiality of living. Together and individually, the portraits tell a powerful story about the structure of contemporary society and the hierarchical distributions of power that permeate our lives. |
| slurs in sign language: Insults in Classical Athens Deborah Kamen, 2020-08-25 Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequences of insulting fellow Athenians. The result is the first volume to map out the full spectrum of insults, from obscene banter at festivals, to invective in the courtroom, to slander and even hubristic assaults on another's honor. While the classical city celebrated the democratic equality of autochthonous citizens, it counted a large population of noncitizens as inhabitants, so that ancient Athenians developed a preoccupation with negotiating, affirming, and restricting citizenship. Kamen raises key questions about what it meant to be a citizen in democratic Athens and demonstrates how insults were deployed to police the boundaries of acceptable behavior. In doing so, she illuminates surprising differences between antiquity and today and sheds light on the ways a democratic society valuing free speech can nonetheless curb language considered damaging to the community as a whole. |
| slurs in sign language: Racial Slurs! Lilith Regan, 2018-06-17 Did you know that the word Oriental is considered offensive because it dates back to Orientalism, when Asians were considered savages and Asian women were all seen as sexual objects. The word Pepsi is a racial slur for French Canadians that means empty from the neck up. The word Pineapple is a racial slur for Blacks who act like Asians, black on the outside, yellow on the inside. This book is a collection of 2600+ everyday words and phrases that you didn't know had racist meanings. |
| slurs in sign language: Deaf Identities Irene W. Leigh, Catherine A. O'Brien, 2019-10-23 Over the past decade, a significant body of work on the topic of deaf identities has emerged. In this volume, Leigh and O'Brien bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines -- anthropology, counseling, education, literary criticism, practical religion, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and deaf studies -- to examine deaf identity paradigms. In this book, contributing authors describe their perspectives on what deaf identities represent, how these identities develop, and the ways in which societal influences shape these identities. Intersectionality, examination of medical, educational, and family systems, linguistic deprivation, the role of oppressive influences, the deaf body, and positive deaf identity development, are among the topics examined in the quest to better understand deaf identities. In reflection, contributors have intertwined both scholarly and personal perspectives to animate these academic debates. The result is a book that reinforces the multiple ways in which deaf identities manifest, empowering those whose identity formation is influenced by being deaf or hard of hearing. |
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Slurs in sign language: Just like spoken languages, sign languages have their own forms of offensive and derogatory terms, targeting individuals based on various aspects of their identity, including deafness, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender.
LESSON PLAN Slurs, Offensive Jokes and How to Respond - ADL
Have students turn and talk with a person sitting next to them and discuss slurs, offensive language or jokes they have heard, either directed at them or someone else, or ones they …
Slurs and Biased Language
Here are some ADL resources that provide strategies for challenging slurs and biased language and educating people about the impact of their words. Slur: an insulting, offensive or …
Racial Slurs In Sign Language Copy - Creighton University
Racial Slurs In Sign Language The Signs of Language Edward S. Klima,Ursula Bellugi,1979 In a book with far reaching implications Edward S Klima and Ursula Bellugi present a full …
Guide on communicating inclusively about race and ethnicity
Always avoid and seek to challenge offensive terminology, racial slurs, and any language that uses racial or ethnic stereotypes. In the context of groups, use the language preferred by the …
Guide to Inclusive Language: Race and Ethnicity - Washington, D.C.
and discrimination. Racially-, or ethnically-, biased language targets a person’s race or ethnicity and can include derogatory language, racial slurs, or jokes. While a word may not be …
Sign languages in the EU - European Parliament
There is no universal SL, and the EU has a large variety of SLs, including a French SL in France, (a different) French and Flemish SLs in Belgium, as well as, for example, Catalan and Galician …
ThinkB4YouSpeak - GLSEN
GLSEN’s 2007 National School Climate Survey found that nearly three-quarters (73.6%) of LGBT students hear homophobic language, such as “faggot” or “dyke,” and more than nine in ten …
Disability Language Guide
Avoid offensive language – even as a joke. Examples of offensive terms: mad, freak, psycho, retard, lame, imbecile, crazy. Don’t call someone “a retard” or “retarded” if they do something …
Racist language (including racial slurs and racist/ethnic abuse
Racist language, like other strong language, is most likely to cause offence when used gratuitously, in a discriminatory way, and without clear editorial purpose.
The Social Life of Slurs - PhilPapers
22 Jan 2016 · Slurs have also figured in work on racist and homophobic discourse by linguists, sociologists and social psychologists. But until recently, the subject has played little role in …
Slurring Words - MIT
Slurs are expressions that target groups on the basis of race (‘nigger’), nationality (‘kraut’), religion (‘kike’), gender (‘bitch’), sexual orientation (‘fag’), immigrant status (‘wetback’) and sundry …
Slurs, Pejoratives, and Hate Speech - PhilPapers
How do slurs differ from pejoratives, insults, swear words, and offensive behavior? Within the realm of evaluative language, how do slurs compare to Fregean “coloring” and hybrid terms …
Language Matters: Disability and the Power of Taboo Words
In this chapter, we discuss the nature of taboo words and provide some background on disability-related taboo words. We discuss the power of these taboo words and how they can be used …
Language Initiative Elimination of Harmful - The Wall Street Journal
The goal of the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is to eliminate * many forms of harmful language, including racist, violent, and biased (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, …
Insults according to notions of intelligence: Perspectives from ...
In using slurs, even if they are aimed at a single individual, all members of the named group are potentially harmed by their use (Diaz Legaspe, 2018). It is suggested that the need for a slur to …
A rich-lexicon theory of slurs and their uses - Taylor & Francis Online
In this paper, I present data involving the use of the Romanian slur ‘țigan , ’ consideration of which leads to the postulation of a sui-generis, irreducible type of use of slurs (identificatory). This …
Swearing in South Africa: Multidisciplinary research on language …
certain swearwords ( i.e.,racial slurs) is punishable by law. Most of the linguistic research has focused on the lexicographic treatment of swearing (e.g., Dekker 1991; Van Huyssteen 1998), …
Senti-words in English and Vietnamese* - KHU
Slurs refer to “derogatory terms targeting individuals and groups of individuals based on race, nationality, religion, gender or sexual orientation” (Bianchi 2014), and are “used by speakers …
Slurs In Sign Language (Download Only) - netsec.csuci.edu
Slurs in sign language: Just like spoken languages, sign languages have their own forms of offensive and derogatory terms, targeting individuals based on various aspects of their identity, including deafness, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender.
LESSON PLAN Slurs, Offensive Jokes and How to Respond - ADL
Have students turn and talk with a person sitting next to them and discuss slurs, offensive language or jokes they have heard, either directed at them or someone else, or ones they have heard in songs, movies or TV
Slurs and Biased Language
Here are some ADL resources that provide strategies for challenging slurs and biased language and educating people about the impact of their words. Slur: an insulting, offensive or degrading remark, often based on an identity group such as race, ethnicity, religion, ethnic, gender/gender identity or sexual orientation.
Racial Slurs In Sign Language Copy - Creighton University
Racial Slurs In Sign Language The Signs of Language Edward S. Klima,Ursula Bellugi,1979 In a book with far reaching implications Edward S Klima and Ursula Bellugi present a full exploration of a language in another mode a language of the hands and of the eyes They discuss the origin and
Guide on communicating inclusively about race and ethnicity
Always avoid and seek to challenge offensive terminology, racial slurs, and any language that uses racial or ethnic stereotypes. In the context of groups, use the language preferred by the group.
Guide to Inclusive Language: Race and Ethnicity - Washington, D.C.
and discrimination. Racially-, or ethnically-, biased language targets a person’s race or ethnicity and can include derogatory language, racial slurs, or jokes. While a word may not be personally offensive to you, it may be to others because of its racist or ethnic connotations. Examples of racially or ethnically biased language can be found in
Sign languages in the EU - European Parliament
There is no universal SL, and the EU has a large variety of SLs, including a French SL in France, (a different) French and Flemish SLs in Belgium, as well as, for example, Catalan and Galician SLs as well as the Spanish SL in Spain.
ThinkB4YouSpeak - GLSEN
GLSEN’s 2007 National School Climate Survey found that nearly three-quarters (73.6%) of LGBT students hear homophobic language, such as “faggot” or “dyke,” and more than nine in ten (90.2%) hear the word “gay” used in a negative way frequently or often at school.
Disability Language Guide
Avoid offensive language – even as a joke. Examples of offensive terms: mad, freak, psycho, retard, lame, imbecile, crazy. Don’t call someone “a retard” or “retarded” if they do something silly, unwise, thoughtless, short-signed, dangerous, ill-advised, frustrating, etc.
Racist language (including racial slurs and racist/ethnic abuse
Racist language, like other strong language, is most likely to cause offence when used gratuitously, in a discriminatory way, and without clear editorial purpose.
The Social Life of Slurs - PhilPapers
22 Jan 2016 · Slurs have also figured in work on racist and homophobic discourse by linguists, sociologists and social psychologists. But until recently, the subject has played little role in semantic theory.
Slurring Words - MIT
Slurs are expressions that target groups on the basis of race (‘nigger’), nationality (‘kraut’), religion (‘kike’), gender (‘bitch’), sexual orientation (‘fag’), immigrant status (‘wetback’) and sundry other demographics.
Slurs, Pejoratives, and Hate Speech - PhilPapers
How do slurs differ from pejoratives, insults, swear words, and offensive behavior? Within the realm of evaluative language, how do slurs compare to Fregean “coloring” and hybrid terms such as moral, “thick,” and evaluative terms?
Language Matters: Disability and the Power of Taboo Words
In this chapter, we discuss the nature of taboo words and provide some background on disability-related taboo words. We discuss the power of these taboo words and how they can be used not only negatively but also in positive ways. What are taboo Words? As it happens, taboo words come in many forms.
Language Initiative Elimination of Harmful - The Wall Street Journal
The goal of the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is to eliminate * many forms of harmful language, including racist, violent, and biased (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) language in Stanford websites and code.
Insults according to notions of intelligence: Perspectives from ...
In using slurs, even if they are aimed at a single individual, all members of the named group are potentially harmed by their use (Diaz Legaspe, 2018). It is suggested that the need for a slur to target particular groups or classes means that terms …
A rich-lexicon theory of slurs and their uses - Taylor & Francis …
In this paper, I present data involving the use of the Romanian slur ‘țigan , ’ consideration of which leads to the postulation of a sui-generis, irreducible type of use of slurs (identificatory). This type of use is potentially ‘ ’ problematic for extant theories of slurs.
Swearing in South Africa: Multidisciplinary research on language …
certain swearwords ( i.e.,racial slurs) is punishable by law. Most of the linguistic research has focused on the lexicographic treatment of swearing (e.g., Dekker 1991; Van Huyssteen 1998), while only a handful of studies focused on grammatical aspects of swearing (e.g., Calitz 1979; Feinauer 1981; Van Huyssteen 1996). Most recently, Van
Senti-words in English and Vietnamese* - KHU
Slurs refer to “derogatory terms targeting individuals and groups of individuals based on race, nationality, religion, gender or sexual orientation” (Bianchi 2014), and are “used by speakers primarily to identify members that possess certain descriptive features (e.g., race) and to derogate them on that basis” (Croom 2013; Yoon 2015).
