Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: It is well‐established within linguistics that slang serves a group‐identifying function. In this paper, a new understanding of the notion of lexical metadata is developed to provide a philosophical treatment of said function. The proposed account explains the group‐identifying function of slang in terms of certain inferences about a speaker's group affiliations that people competent with a slang word will be disposed to make given the lexical metadata related to the word in question. The resulting view is theoretically simple and may extend to a whole range of linguistic phenomena that speakers utilize to position themselves in social space.
Source: Mind & Language
DOI: 10.1111/mila.12530
Author: Alice Damirjian
Institution: Stockholm University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,950
Funders: Umeå Universitet, Göteborgs Universitet
OpenAlex ID: W4403948343