A puzzle about pejoratives.
Pejoratives are the class of expressions that are meant to insult or disparage. They include swear words and slurs. These words allow speakers to convey emotional states beyond the truth-conditional contents that they are normally taken to encode. The puzzle arises because, although pejoratives seem...
| Published in: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 159; no. 3; pp. 383 - 406 |
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Jul2012
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=78141456&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 78141456 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00318116 4L8 jtl: Philosophical Studies issn: 00318116 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2012 vid: 159 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 78141456 10.1007/s11098-011-9749-7 ppf: 383 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 246KB tig: atl: A puzzle about pejoratives. aug: au: Hom, Christopher affil: Department of Philosophy, Texas Tech University, Lubbock USA su: Philosophy of language Expressive language Invective Semantics Externalism (Philosophy of mind) sug: subj: Philosophy of language Expressive language Invective Semantics Externalism (Philosophy of mind) keyword: Pejoratives Pragmatics ab: Pejoratives are the class of expressions that are meant to insult or disparage. They include swear words and slurs. These words allow speakers to convey emotional states beyond the truth-conditional contents that they are normally taken to encode. The puzzle arises because, although pejoratives seem to be a semantically unified class, some of their occurrences are best accounted for truth-conditionally, while others are best accounted for non-truth-conditionally. Where current, non-truth-conditional, views in the literature fail to provide a unified solution for the puzzle, this paper motivates a novel, semantic, analysis of pejorative language. The significance of the proposed solution is not only linguistic in nature, but also philosophical, as it both provides a new argument for, and sheds further light on, the nature of semantic externalism. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Philosophical Studies is a copyright of Springer, 2012. All Rights Reserved. item: Philosophical Studies holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2012 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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