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- 9781793610522
- Subject Area
- Language Arts & Disciplines, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Slurs and Thick Terms : When Language Encodes Values
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
- Subject
- Communication Studies, Language, Linguistics / Semantics, Linguistics / General
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Series
- Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives Ser.
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- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 16.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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What is the relation between language, communication, and values? In Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values, Bianca Cepollaro explores the ways in which certain pieces of evaluative language not only reflect speakers' moral perspectives, but also contribute to promoting their evaluative stance. She focuses on slurs-the prototypical example of hate speech, including racial and homophobic epithets-and so-called thick terms, that is, those expressions, much discussed in metaethics, that mix description and evaluation such as "lewd," "chaste," "generous," or "selfish." This book argues that in employing such terms, speakers not only say something purely factual about people and things, but also presuppose certain values, as if they were common ground among the conversation participants. Cepollaro illustrates how this linguistic mechanism effectively explains the pervasive social and moral effects of evaluative language. Using a multidisciplinary approach, she tackles issues in philosophy of language, linguistics, ethics, and metaethics. Moreover, the theoretical investigation takes into consideration and discusses empirical data from psychology and experimental philosophy.
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Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-10
1793610525
ISBN-13
9781793610522
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19050418485
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Publication Name
Slurs and Thick Terms : When Language Encodes Values
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Communication Studies, Language, Linguistics / Semantics, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
2020
Series
Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines, Philosophy
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
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2020-025866
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
P410.I58c47 2020
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Cepollaro skillfully bridges two otherwise distinct subfields of philosophy; she brings work on slur terms from the philosophy of language into direct contact with meta-ethical debates about thick evaluative terms. The result is more than just an enhancement of each subfield; it is a testament to the fruitfulness of such inter-subfield exploration. Cepollaro offers us a nuanced, beautifully-defended unified account of hybrid evaluatives. The book is clear, detailed, empirically-informed, and thorough; it also provides insight into such hot topics as propaganda, hate speech, and reclamation; this book rewards its reader throughout., In recent years, philosophy of language has taken a pragmatic turn, focusing on communication in political and socially significant contexts, and generally on the semantics and pragmatics of moral, aesthetic, and broadly evaluative discourse. Bianca Cepollaro's remarkable book, Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values, is an important contribution to this growing literature in applied philosophy of language. This book offers a robust defense of an account of a subclass of evaluatives: slurs and thick terms. On the hybrid semantic account offered, these evaluative terms have a descriptive truth-conditional content, and presuppose values as if they were common ground. Cepollaro gives a meticulous analysis of the presuppositional behavior of these expressions with respect to projection and rejection, while illustrating the dynamics of their use in concrete contexts of propaganda and hate speech. She also convincingly shows that the hybrid evaluative semantic theory she develops is preferable to truth-conditional and to deflationary accounts of slurs and thick terms.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. The Presuppositional Account of Hybrid Evaluatives Chapter 1. Hybrid Evaluatives: a New Class Chapter 2. The Semantics of Hybrid Evaluatives Chapter 3. The Dynamics of Hybrid Evaluatives: Complicity, Propaganda, Rejection, Negotiation Chapter 4. Defending a Uniform Presuppositional Account of Slurs and Thick Terms Chapter 5. Non-standard Uses of Hybrid Evaluatives Part II. Rival Theories Chapter 6. Truth-conditional Theories: It's Just a Matter of Semantics Chapter 7. Deflationary Theories: It's Just a Matter of Pragmatics Chapter 8. An alternative Hybrid Theory: Conventional Implicature Conclusion
Copyright Date
2020
Dewey Decimal
417.2
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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