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From slur to vocative and beyond: An analysis of the M-word in Venezuelan Spanish.
The present study focuses on the use of the word ‘Marico’ (‘fag’) in Venezuelan Spanish in public online spaces, the semantic and pragmatic changes the word – and its variants – has undergone in the aforementioned variety of Spanish, as well as speakers’ perceptions of the term.
Blanca Romero Pino
a Ph.D. student in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She has received a B.A. in English Education, an M.A in TESOL, and an M.A in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. She has 11 years of experience in TESOL. Her research interests include language and identity in immigrant communities, semantic and pragmatic change, and racial(ized) expression in mediated language.
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