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Elder, Chi-He 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3702-5397
(2021)
Microaggression or misunderstanding? Implicatures, inferences and accountability.
Journal of Pragmatics, 179.
pp. 37-43.
ISSN 0378-2166
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Abstract
This paper contributes a pragmatic perspective to the complex question of how to classify microaggressions that are committed via linguistic means. Given that microaggressions are often communicated implicitly, two key questions arise: (i) on what linguistic grounds is a recipient licensed to infer that a microaggression has been committed, and (ii) to what extent can a speaker claim they have been misunderstood and hence deny responsibility for having committed a microaggression? These questions are addressed through a discussion of the nature of implicature, inferences and accountability, highlighting that a key challenge lies in the fact that microaggressive content is typically not part of the representational content of what is achieved in interaction.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | accountability,background assumption,deniability,microaggression,misunderstanding,speaker intention,language and linguistics,linguistics and language,artificial intelligence ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1203 |
| Faculty \ School: | University of East Anglia > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2021 23:45 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 07:41 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/79879 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.04.020 |
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