The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language

ISBN-13: 9781138602434 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 412 str.

Justin Khoo; Rachel Katharine Sterken

Opis

In 24 new chapters from an international team of experts, the Handbook explores how language shapes, and is shaped by, social and political factors. The volume provides a broad expert introduction to the major issues currently under discussion in this rapidly growing area.　

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