# Sex and race on and beneath the surface of discourse

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-02-16-sex-and-race-on-and-beneath-the-surface-of-discourse

The piece argues that emphatic slurs do not reliably reveal underlying prejudice and that discourse analysis cannot securely recover an individual text's hidden meaning.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 16 February 2007

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 16 February 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: discourse-analysis, gender, race, semantics.

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