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Record W4247435533 · doi:10.22215/etd/2017-11939

Slurs: Their Use and Cognitive Impact

2017· dissertation· en· W4247435533 on OpenAlexaff
Ryan Rafferty

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGricePragmaticsUtteranceLinguisticsSemantics (computer science)Meaning (existential)ImplicatureGermanPhilosophyPsychologyEpistemologyComputer scienceCognitive science

Abstract

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Since Kaplan's seminal (unpublished) 2005 manuscript, "The meaning of 'Ouch' and 'Oops'", derogatory language came to the philosophy of language forum.One of the main questions concerns how the distinction between a slur like "Boche" and its neutral counterpart "German" enters the semantics/pragmatics debate.In this thesis, I will attempt to capture the offensiveness conveyed by the utterance of a slur using Grice's notion of pragmatic implicatures.Slurs will be explained in exploiting Grice's notion of generalized conversational implicatures within the pluri-propositionalist framework inspired by Perry.Along this line, we can maintain a clear-cut distinction between semantics and pragmatics phenomena.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.037
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.037
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.005
Scholarly communication0.0090.009
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.090
GPT teacher head0.356
Teacher spread0.266 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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