Reclaiming Colourful Language: The Impact of Linguistic Reclamation on the Cognitive Processing of LGBTQ+ Slurs

This interdisciplinary psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic thesis explores the cognitive processing of slurs, in particular those targeting the LGBTQ+ community. It also seeks to determine whether the phenomenon of linguistic reclamation has any effects on the processing of slurs. Existing resear...

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Main Author: Edmondson, Daniel
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/69101/