The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language

ISBN-13: 9780367759575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 412 str.

Justin Khoo; Rachel Katharine Sterken

Opis

This Handbook brings together philosophical work on how language shapes, and is shaped by, social and political factors. Its 24 chapters were written exclusively for this volume by an international team of leading researchers, and together they provide a broad expert introduction to the major issues currently under discussion in this area.

The volume is divided into four parts:

Part I: Methodological and Foundational Issues
Part II: Non-ideal Semantics and Pragmatics
Part III: Linguistic Harms
Part IV: Applications

The parts, and chapters in each part, are introduced in the volume’s General Introduction. A list of Works Cited concludes each chapter, pointing readers to further areas of study. The Handbook is the first major, multi-authored reference work in this growing area and essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of language and its relationship to social and political reality.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Methodological and Foundational Issues  1. Conceptual Engineering in Philosophy  2. Social Ontology  3. An Invitation to Social and Political Metasemantics  4. Linguistic Prescriptivism  5. Speech Act Theory: Social and Political Applications  6. On the Uselessness of the Distinction Between Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory  Part 2: Non-Ideal Semantics and Pragmatics  7. Lying, Deception, and Epistemic Advantage  8. Propaganda  9. Code Words  10. Racist and Sexist Figleaves  11. Protests  12. Defective Contexts  Part 3: Linguistic Harms  13. Varieties of Pejoratives  14. Microaggressions and the Problem of Attributional Ambiguity  15. Hermeneutical Injustice  16. Social and Political Aspects of Generic Language and Speech  17. Language Extinction  18. Indigenous Language Reclamation Between The Fangs Of a (Simulated) Dilemma  Part 4: Applications  19. Language and Free Speech  20. Language and Ideology  21. Language and Legitimation  22. How Much Gender Is Too Much Gender?  23. On Language and Sexuality  24. The Language of mental illness