Talk:Name calling

I have no clue what "name calling" means or denotes
after having read the first two sentences. After the third sentence it apperars that "name calling" means a "technique". The whole article does not present a definition. Hence it is impossible for sb. to judge whether a given situation "contains" name calling or not. Can sb. please incorporate


 * "name calling" = "to create fear and arouse prejudice by using negative words (bad names) to create an unfavorable opinion or hatred against a group, beliefs, ideas or institutions they would have us denounce." (http://mason.gmu.edu/~amcdonal/Propaganda%20Techniques.html)

--87.183.165.239 (talk) 13:54, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Name calling
This article is about insulting, not about name calling, because name calling is calling someone like "John come here". 62.119.28.111 (talk) 18:51, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Christie and lingustics
I have no idea - other than these people edited themselves into the article- why the Public mind study is singled out. Also, they may have been financed from someone but they were no linguists. Corrupt, liar, hypocrite have definite semantic meanings and there are fairly clear standards to determine whether these descriptions are adequate to use or not. I won't bother to explain each meaning, there are dictionaries. 'jerk' from my perspective has no semantic meaning other than being simply derogatory. Some people may find a specific meaning there. This 'study' was in any case deplorable for its lack of scientific rigor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.52.32.213 (talk) 07:31, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

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to be renamed
Oxford, Cambridge, The Free and Merriam-Webster Dictionaries all state it's hyphenated, i.e. 'name-calling'. So, please, move the page. --Concrete Stocking (talk) 13:54, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Common misconceptions - section blanked
An editor found the section confusing and not reflective of the sources cited, so wiped the section on 26 March 2021. I checked the sources, and on my reading the section says what they're saying. (Although one ref (of 5) was inaccessible at present, and may be gone: 'Ad hominem fallacy, Logical Fallacies, Formal and Informal', Independent Individualist.)

First introduced into article on 28 October 2009, it has existed in various forms until now. It may - perhaps - need attention, but I thought blanking was a bit too drastic so reverted the deletion. Improvement or discussion might be preferable, at least to start with.49.177.61.250 (talk) 07:09, 7 April 2021 (UTC)