In:Pejoration
Edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 228] 2016
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 31 March 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.228.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
What is pejoration, and how can it be expressed in language?
Pejoration in different linguistic domains
Pejorative prosody
How do evaluative derivational meanings arise? A bit of Geforsche and Forscherei
Quantification with pejoratives
Pejoration, normalcy conceptions and generic sentences
Demonstrative pejoratives
Pejoration, slurring and sarcasm
Slurring as insulting
A multi-act perspective on slurs
The meaning and use of slurs: An account based on empirical data
Pejoration via sarcastic irony and sarcasm
Pejoration in different linguistic contexts
Pejoration in contact: m-reduplication and other examples from urban German
Bla, bla, bla in German. A pejorative construction?
Pejoratives in Korean
Pejorative aspects attributed to hearing people in signed constructed dialogue
Index
