Provocative insinuations

In this paper we analyse utterances that, without explicitly constituting hate speech, nevertheless convey a hateful message. For exam-ple, in the headline “Iraqi Refugee is convicted in Germany of raping and murdering teenage girl”, the presence of “Iraqi refugee” does not seem arbitrary. To the co...

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Autores: Domínguez Armas, Álvaro, Soria Ruiz, Andrés
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/142531
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/daimon.360561
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/142531
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Conversational Implicatures
Dogwhistles
Inferences
Insinuations
Hate Speech
Implicatura Conversacional
Inferencias
Insinuaciones
Discurso de Odio
CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología
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Sumario:In this paper we analyse utterances that, without explicitly constituting hate speech, nevertheless convey a hateful message. For exam-ple, in the headline “Iraqi Refugee is convicted in Germany of raping and murdering teenage girl”, the presence of “Iraqi refugee” does not seem arbitrary. To the contrary, it is responsible for inviting a racist inference against Iraqi refu-gees. We defend that these inferences cannot be described as slurs, ethnic or social terms used as insults, dogwhistles or conversational implicatu-res. Rather, we propose that these inferences are insinuations, specifically provocative insinua-tions, as no conversational response seems effec-tive at blocking them