Slurs and thick terms : when language encodes values / Bianca Cepollaro.

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Book

Author/Creator:

Cepollaro, Bianca, 1989- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Philosophy of language: connections and perspectives.

Philosophy of language: connections and perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Invective--Philosophy.

Invective.

Metaethics.

Judgment (Ethics).

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

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Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]

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text file

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: THE PRESUPPOSITIONAL ACCOUNT OF HYBRID EVALUATIVES

1 Hybrid Evaluatives: A New Class

1.1 What Counts as a Hybrid Evaluative

1.1.1 What Slurs Are About

1.1.2 Distinguishing Thick Terms from Thin Terms

1.1.3 Previous Suggestions for a Uniform Account

1.2 The Projective Behavior of Slurs and Thick Terms

1.2.1 Projection

1.2.2 Rejection

1.2.3 An Alternative Explanation of Projection

1.3 Conclusion

2 The Semantics of Hybrid Evaluatives

2.1 The Evaluative Content

2.1.1 Gradability

2.1.2 Multidimensionality

2.1.3 How to Interpret the Evaluative Content

2.1.4 Inter-variation and Intra-variation

2.2 The Descriptive Content

2.3 When Things Go Wrong: Presuppositional Failure

2.3.1 Reference and Extension

2.3.2 What Exactly Is Presupposed

2.3.3 Failure

2.3.4 A Theory of Value

2.4 Conclusion

3 The Dynamics of Hybrid Evaluatives: Complicity, Propaganda, Rejection, Negotiation

3.1 Slurs in Conversation

3.1.1 Scenario I-Endorsement

3.1.2 Scenario II-Complicity and Propaganda

3.1.3 Scenario III-Rejection or How to Respond to Slurs and Hate Speech

3.1.4 Slurs and Policies: Theoretical Proposals and Empirical Data

3.2 Thick Terms: Negotiation and Conceptual Ethics

3.3 Conclusion

4 Defending a Uniform Presuppositional Account of Slurs and Thick Terms

4.1 Defending the Uniformity Claim: The Residual Differences between Slurs and Thick Terms

4.1.1 Descriptive and Evaluative Content

4.1.2 The Projective Behavior

4.2 Defending the Presuppositionality Claim

4.2.1 Slurs and Presuppositions

4.2.2 Thick Terms and Presuppositions

4.3 Conclusion

5 Non-standard Uses of Hybrid Evaluatives

5.1 Attributive and Echoic Uses of Hybrid Evaluatives

5.1.1 The Relevance-Theoretic Tools: Attributive and Echoic Uses of Language

5.1.2 The Case of Evaluatives

5.2 What's Special about the Reclamation of Slurs

5.2.1 Initiation and Conventionalization

5.2.2 In-groupness

5.2.3 The Effects of Reclamation

5.3 Conclusion

PART II: RIVAL THEORIES

6 Truth-Conditional Theories: It's Just a Matter of Semantics

6.1 Truth-Conditional Theories of Slurs

6.1.1 The Case of Apparent Lack of Projection

6.1.2 An Attempt to Explain Away Projection: Derogation and Offense

6.2 A Truth-Conditional Theory of Thick Terms

6.2.1 The Core of the Proposal

6.2.2 Negative Strengthening

6.2.3 Clausal Implicatures

6.3 Conclusion

7 Deflationary Theories: It's Just a Matter of Pragmatics

7.1 Deflationary Accounts of Slurs

7.1.1 Anderson and Lepore: Violating Prohibitions and Taboos

7.1.2 Bolinger: Co-occurrence Expectations and Contrastive Preferences

7.1.3 Nunberg: Markedness, Affiliation, and Manner Implicatures

7.1.4 A Note on Markedness

7.1.5 Slurs and Speech Acts

7.2 A Deflationary Account of Thick Terms

7.3 Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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