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Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values

Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values

Cepollaro, Bianca

Hardcover

Series: Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives

PhilosophyGeneral ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 1793610525
ISBN13: 9781793610522
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Aug 31 2020
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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