Monitoring "Bad" Language by Professor Luvell Anderson

Expletives are a class of expressions that are used to express a range of strong emotive attitudes.  They are also the kinds of words many view as unsuitable for "polite company," and thus find necessary to censor in certain contexts.  Some expletives admit of appropriate contexts but one kind have very specialized rules of use.  In this lecture I will look at the specialized use rules for the N-word and why it seems okay for some people to use it in a appropriated, positive (or at least non-negative) sense, and not okay for others.