Slurs and Thick Terms

When Language Encodes Values

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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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Utgivningsdatum2020-08-31
Mått163 x 240 x 20 mm
Vikt458 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives
Antal sidor184
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793610522

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AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I. The Presuppositional Account of Hybrid EvaluativesChapter 1. Hybrid Evaluatives: a New ClassChapter 2. The Semantics of Hybrid EvaluativesChapter 3. The Dynamics of Hybrid Evaluatives: Complicity, Propaganda, Rejection, NegotiationChapter 4. Defending a Uniform Presuppositional Account of Slurs and Thick TermsChapter 5. Non-standard Uses of Hybrid EvaluativesPart II. Rival TheoriesChapter 6. Truth-conditional Theories: It’s Just a Matter of SemanticsChapter 7. Deflationary Theories: It’s Just a Matter of PragmaticsChapter 8. An alternative Hybrid Theory: Conventional ImplicatureConclusion

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.