The C-Word" Meets "the N-Word
"The Slur-Once-Removed and the Discursive Construction of "Reverse Racism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2961874 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Bax (0000-0002-1332-2733, Department of Linguistics University of California Santa Barbara) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 114-136 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jola.12185 |
| OpenAlex | W2886230449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article examines one strategy in the discursive construction of so-called reverse racism: the slur-once-removed, a linguistic construction in the form the X-word, used to euphemize slurs. Building on structural similarity to the N-word, the C-word has emerged as a euphemism for cracker. Using dialogic syntax and stance theory, the article analyzes media debates surrounding the George Zimmerman murder trial to argue that the parallelism of form between the C-word and the N-word constructs their referents as similarly harmful. Euphemizing cracker as the C-word indexes cracker as a racist slur, and by extension discursively constructs the phenomenon of reverse racism
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
Interdiscursivity
Kill Talk
Dialectism
How social media use, political identity, and racial resentment affect perceptions of reverse racism in the United States
Poetry of Rehumanization
Dedication
Gender and the discursive authority of far right politics
Defensive racism and Christian righteousness in the time of Trump
Something You Can See, Hear, and Feel
Naming and Namelessness
The ethno-metapragmatics of CHOSEN/CHOSUN
Beyond translation equivalence
The public life of white affects
Making registers in politics
Language, gender and political symbolics
The C-Word" Meets "the N-Word
Because it's easier to kill that way
Identifying the Unidentified Race
Implicit Ethics
Linguistic taboo, ideology, and erasure
Linguistic Anthropology in 2018
The Dialogic Imagination
White Backlash
The Everyday Language of White Racism
Stance
Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing
The stance triangle
Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life
Gender Trouble
Creepy-ass cracker in post-racial America
It’s different for guys’
Gender-Based Language Reform and the Social Construction of Meaning
Towards a dialogic syntax
Categorizing the Categorizer”
Variation and the indexical field 1
Intertextuality as Source and Evidence for Indirect Indexical Meanings
Commentary
Accusatory and exculpatory moves in the hunting for "Racists" language game
The social life of cultural value
Language and linguistics on trial
The C-Word" Meets "the N-Word
Ideologies of language and race in US media discourse about the Trayvon Martin shooting
Professional Vision
The 'knockout game
"Hunting for "Racists
Stance
The Relevance of Husserl's Theory to Language Socialization
Examining the Reach of Color Blindness
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |