Bad language /

When theorizing about language, we tend to assume that speakers are cooperative, honest, helpful, and so on. This, of course, isn't remotely true of a lot of real-world language use. Bad Language is the first textbook to explore non-idealized language use, the linguistic behaviour of those who...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Cappelen, Herman (Author), Dever, Josh (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Contemporary introductions to philosophy of language.
Subjects:	Communication. Discrimination in language. Language and languages > Philosophy. Truthfulness and falsehood. Ehrverletzung. Lüge. Manipulation. Missbrauch. Soziolinguistik. Sprache. Sprachverhalten. Unwahrheit.

Table of Contents:

Idealized Communication
Three Forms of Non-Ideal Language
Messing with the Truth
Bullshitting and Deep Bullshitting
Conceptual Engineering
Slurs and Pejoratives
Lexical Effects
Generics and Defective Reasoning
Non-Ideal Speech Acts
Linguistic Oppressing and Linguistic Silencing
Speech Act of Consent
Thoughts on Ideal vs Non-Ideal Theories of Language.