Biased Evaluative Descriptions.
In this essay I identify a type of linguistic phenomenon new to feminist philosophy of language: biased evaluative descriptions. Biased evaluative descriptions are descriptions whose well-intended positive surface meanings are inflected with implicitly biased content. Biased evaluative descriptions...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Philosophical Association Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 295 - 313 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jun2024
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