It's not what you said, it's the way you said it: slurs and conventional implicatures
It's not what you said, it's the way you said it: slurs and conventional implicatures
In this paper, I defend against a number of criticisms an account of slurs, according to which the same semantic content is expressed in the use of a slur (e.g. 'chink') as is expressed in the use of its neutral counterpart (e.g. 'Chinese'), while in addition the use of a slur conventionally implicates a negative, derogatory attitude. Along the way, I criticise competing accounts of the semantics and pragmatics of slurs, namely, Hom's 'combinatorial externalism' and Anderson and Lepore's 'prohibitionism'.
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Whiting, Daniel
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September 2013
Whiting, Daniel
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Whiting, Daniel
(2013)
It's not what you said, it's the way you said it: slurs and conventional implicatures.
Analytic Philosophy, 54 (3), .
Abstract
In this paper, I defend against a number of criticisms an account of slurs, according to which the same semantic content is expressed in the use of a slur (e.g. 'chink') as is expressed in the use of its neutral counterpart (e.g. 'Chinese'), while in addition the use of a slur conventionally implicates a negative, derogatory attitude. Along the way, I criticise competing accounts of the semantics and pragmatics of slurs, namely, Hom's 'combinatorial externalism' and Anderson and Lepore's 'prohibitionism'.
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Accepted/In Press date: August 2012
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