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  title info:
    title: Bad Words
    sub title: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs
  name:
    name part: Sosa, David
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press USA - OSO
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (244 pages)
  abstract: 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?
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Slang
  subject:
    topic: Swearing
  subject:
    topic: Argot
  subject:
    topic: Jurons
  subject:
    topic: Slang
  subject:
    topic: Swearing
  classification: P409
  classification: 417.2
  classification: CC 4800
  classification: ER 640
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 180728
    record change date: 20260319175932.2
    record identifier: in00005716383
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng