| Sumario: | But authority seems to be a salient condition that must be satisfied for any speech act to count as a subordinating speech act. According to my terminology, whatever illocutionary act a speech act made when using a slur is, it also is a speech act of "slurring." This shows that whatever speech act one performs using a slur, its success as an offensive speech act depends on the fact that there must be a significant number of fellow bigots in the society. Although Langton's purpose is not to develop an extensive account of subordinating speech acts, her account of subordinating speech acts and their application to pornographic speech acts is illuminating.
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