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What makes a word bad? On the one hand, slurs and other derogatory language appear to be meaningful - different slurs can seem to refer to different groups, for example. On the other hand, slurs can seem to be just an arbitrary tool for insulting or enabling harm. How is the meaning of a slur related to its practical uses?
Cover; Bad Words: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1: Calling, Addressing, and Appropriation; 1 The N-Word; 2 Ambiguity; 3 Richard's Expressivism; 4 Bianchi's Echoic Account; 5 Speech Communities and Communities of Practice; 6 Calling and Addressing; 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; 2: A Dual Act Analysis of Slurs; 1 Univocal Views; 2 Two-Factor Views; 3 From Multi-dimensionalism to Multiple Acts; 4 Conclusion; Bibliography; 3: Loaded Words: On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Slurs; 1 Some Stipulations and Observations; 2 Loaded Descriptivism
3 Loaded Descriptivism vs. Hybrid Expressivism4 What Loaded Descriptivism Doesn't Do; 5 Objections and Replies; 6 Summing Up; Appendix: A Sampler of Slurs; Related Terms; Bibliography; 4: Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt; 1 Dehumanizing Slurs; 2 Dehumanization; 3 Tri-Level Semantics; 4 Objections Concerning the Encoding of Contempt; 5 On the Moral Psychology of Contempt; 6 Replies to Objections on the Encoding of Contempt; 7 Dehumanizing with Slurs; Bibliography; 5: Pejoratives as Fiction; 1 Mythological Reference; 2 Mythological Truth; 3 Moral and Semantic Innocence
4 Group Comprehension5 PEJ and BAD; 6 Offensiveness and Truth-Conditions; 7 Negation and The Scope of Denial; 8 Identity Expressivism and Identity; 9 Identity Expressivism and Substitutivity; 10 Truth and Fictional Truth; 11 Best Fit Semantics; 12 Metasemantic Reflections; Bibliography; 6: Pejorative Tone; 1 Introduction; 2 Prohibitionism; 3 The Limits of Meaning: Content versus Tone; 3.1 At-issue content; 3.2 Presupposition; 3.3 Conventional implicature; 3.4 Expressive meaning; 3.5 General objections; 4 Slurs and Tone; 4.1 Sources of tone; 4.2 Tone in interpretation; 5 Conclusion
AcknowledgmentsBibliography; 7: How do Slurs Mean?; Bibliography; 8: Slurs and Obscenities: Lexicography, Semantics, and Philosophy; 1 Introduction; 2 Dimensions of Meaning; 3 Expletives; 4 Swearwords and Slurs; 5 The Lexicography of Slurs; 5.1 Straight entries; 5.2 The "considered to be" entries; 5.3 The "regarded as" entries; 5.4 The "used as" entries; 6 Hom on the Meaning of Slurs; 7 What Went Wrong with the AHD; 7.1 The possible intent of the non-straight entries; 7.2 Correcting the AHD; 8 Words Are Things; 9 Why Elvis Costello Got Punched; 10 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Bibliography
9: Nice Words for Nasty Things: Taboo and its Discontents1 Introduction: Taboo or not Taboo?; 2 Gegensinn, Word Loss, and Homonymicide; 3 Polysemy and the Wages of Sinn; 4 Categories of Taboo; 5 Taboo Avoidance: Activating the Treadmill; 6 Taboo and Gender Asymmetries; 7 Questions of Etymology-and Etymythology; 8 Noun Aversion; 9 One Taboo Left to Go: Skaiophobia; 10 Aversion and Displacement: From Here to Paternity; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bad Words : Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs
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