Inflammatory language : its linguistics and philosophy / Una Stojnić and Ernie Lepore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stojnić, Una, author.

LePore, Ernest, 1950- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Invective.

Slurs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

'Inflammatory Language' investigates slurs, epithets that derogate purely on the basis of group-membership. Una Stojnić and Ernie Lepore argue, against prevailng views, that the distinctive pejorative effect of slurs is constituted by associations attached to and triggered by their articulatory form.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Contents

1 Introduction

Part I Pejorative Content Accounts

2 Predicative Accounts

3 Presuppositional Accounts

4 Conventional Implicature Accounts

5 Perspectival Accounts

6 Summary of Problems with Semantic Accounts

7 Pragmatic Accounts

Part II Non-Content Accounts

8 Non-Content Accounts

Prohibitionism

Pejorative Tone Account

Part III The Articulation Account

9 The Articulation Account

10 Conclusion

References

Name Index

General Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 5, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-892045-8

0-19-892044-X

OCLC:

1493707377