Slurs, roles and power.
Slurring is a kind of hate speech that has various effects. Notable among these is variable offence. Slurs vary in offence across words, uses, and the reactions of audience members. Patterns of offence aren’t adequately explained by current theories. We propose an explanation based on the unjust pow...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 175; no. 11; pp. 2879 - 2907 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=131837852&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 131837852 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00318116 4L8 jtl: Philosophical Studies issn: 00318116 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2018 vid: 175 iid: 11 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 131837852 10.1007/s11098-017-0986-2 ppf: 2879 ppct: 28 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 529KB tig: atl: Slurs, roles and power. aug: au: Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela Wyatt, Jeremy L. affil: Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK su: Discriminatory language Racism in language Hate speech Libel & slander Hate crimes Incitement to violence Cross burning sug: subj: Discriminatory language Racism in language Hate speech Libel & slander Hate crimes Incitement to violence Cross burning keyword: Appropriation Conversational score Discourse and social roles Power Silencing Slurs Speech acts ab: Slurring is a kind of hate speech that has various effects. Notable among these is variable offence. Slurs vary in offence across words, uses, and the reactions of audience members. Patterns of offence aren’t adequately explained by current theories. We propose an explanation based on the unjust power imbalance that a slur seeks to achieve. Our starting observation is that in discourse participants take on discourse roles. These are typically inherited from social roles, but only exist during a discourse. A slurring act is a speech-act that alters the discourse roles of the target and speaker. By assigning discourse roles the speaker unjustly changes the power balance in the dialogue. This has a variety of effects on the target and audience. We show how these notions explain all three types of offence variation. We also briefly sketch how a role and power theory can help explain silencing and appropriation. Explanatory power lies in the fact that offence is correlated with the perceived unjustness of the power imbalance created. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Philosophical Studies is a copyright of Springer, 2018. All Rights Reserved. item: Philosophical Studies holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2018 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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