Oppressive Speech.
I here present two different models of oppressive speech. My interest is not in how speech can cause oppression, but in how speech can actually be an act of oppression. As we shall see, a particular type of speech act, the exercitive, enacts permissibility facts. Since oppressive speech enacts permi...
| Published in: | Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 87; no. 3; pp. 389 - 408 |
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