Title: EXPRESSIVISM AND THE OFFENSIVENESS OF SLURS
Abstract: Philosophical PerspectivesVolume 27, Issue 1 p. 231-259 Original Article EXPRESSIVISM AND THE OFFENSIVENESS OF SLURS Robin Jeshion, Robin Jeshion University of Southern CaliforniaSearch for more papers by this author Robin Jeshion, Robin Jeshion University of Southern CaliforniaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 29 December 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12027Citations: 69 I presented subsets of this paper in colloquia at Harvard University, USC, UCLA, California State Long Beach, the University of Minnesota, and UCSD, and at the 2010 Southern California Philosophy Conference, the 2011 Pacific APA, San Diego, the 2011 Society for Exact Philosophy, Winnipeg, SPAWN 2011, the 2011 ILCL International Workshop on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Rhetoric in Donostia, the LOGOS Workshop on Slurs at the University of Barcelona, and the 2012 Dubrovnik Conference on Philosophy of Language. Thanks to Luvell Anderson, Kent Bach, Liz Camp, Colin Chamberlain, Jonathan Cohen, Ned Hall, Michael Hardimon, Chris Hom, David Kaplan, Janet Levin, Michelle Mason, Nenad Miščević, Michael Nelson, Bernhard Nickel, John Perry, Mark Richard, Dan Rabinoff, Mark Schroeder, Susanna Siegel, Ken Taylor, and Paul Teller. Special thanks to Allen Bradford for extended discussion on the use and appropriation of the "N-word". Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat References Anderson, L. and Lepore, E. [2013] "Slurring Words" Noûs, 47, 25–48. Bach, K. [2012] "Mean and Nasty Talk: On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Slurs", online. Bell, M. [2013] Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt Oxford: Oxford University Press. Booth, W. [1978] "Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation," Critical Inquiry, 5:1, 49–72. Camp, L. [2013] "Slurring Perspectives," Analytic Philosophy, 54, 330–349. Croom, A. [2011] "Slurs" Language Sciences 33, 343–358. Grice, H.P. [1975] " Logic and Conversation" in Syntax and Semantics, P. Cole and J. Morgan eds., New York: Academic Press. Gutzmann, D. [2013] " Expressives and Beyond: An Introduction to Varieties of Use-Conditional Meaning" in Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning, D. Gutzmann, and H. Gartner, eds., Leiden: Brill. Hom, C. [2008] "The Semantics of Racial Epithets" Journal of Philosophy, 105, 416–40. Hom, C. [2010] "Pejoratives" Philosophy Compass, 5, 164–85. Hom, C and May, R. [2013] "Moral and Semantic Innocence," Analytic Philosophy, 54, 293–313. Horn, L. [1985] "Metalinguistic Negation and Pragmatic Ambiguity" Language, 66, 121–74. Hornsby, J. [2001] "Meaning and Uselessness: How to think about derogatory words" Midwest Studies in Philosophy: Figurative Language, 25, 128–41. Jeshion, R. [2013a] "Slurs and Stereotypes" Analytic Philosophy, 54, 314–325. Jeshion, R. [2013b] "Embracing Corruption: A Response to Hom and May" Analytic Philosophy, 54, 325–329. Jeshion, R. [ms] "Dehumanizing Slurs". Jeshion, R. [ms] "The Truth about Slurs". Kaplan, D. [2005] "The Meaning of 'Ouch' and 'Oops'", unpublished manuscript. Lee, H. [1960] To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Collins Publishers. Mason, M. [2003] "Contempt as a Moral Attitude" Ethics 113, 234–272. Miščević, N. [2011] "Slurs and Thick Concepts: Is the New Expressivism Tenable?" Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 11, 157–80. Potts, C. [2005] The Logic of Conventional Implicatures Oxford: Oxford University Press. Potts. C. [2007] "The Expressive Dimension" Theoretical Linguistics, 165–97. Richard, M. [2008] When Truth Gives Out Oxford: Oxford University Press. Saka, P. [2007] How to Think About Meaning Berlin: Springer. Schlenker, P. [2003] "A Plea for Monsters" Linguistics and Philosophy, 26, 29–120. Schlenker, P. [2007] "Expressive Presuppositions" Theoretical Linguistics, 33, 237–45. Tirrell, L. [1999] " Racisim, Sexism, and the Inferential Theory of Meaning" in Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy, and Language, Hendricks Christina and Oliver Kelly, eds., SUNY Press, 41–79. Williamson, T. [2009] " Reference, Inference, and the Semantics of Pejoratives" in The Philosophy of David Kaplan, J. Almog and P. Leonardi eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press. Citing Literature Volume27, Issue1December 2013Pages 231-259 ReferencesRelatedInformation
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