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Slurs and expressive commitments

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dc.abstract.enMost accounts of the derogatory meaning of slurs are semantic. Recently, Nunberg (2018) proposed a purely pragmatic account offering a compelling picture of the relation between derogatory content and social context. Nunberg posits that the semantic content of slurs is identical to that of neutral counterparts, and that derogation is a result of the association of slur use with linguistic conventions of bigoted speakers. The mechanism responsible for it is a special kind of conversational implicature. However, this paper argues that Nunberg’s proposal suffers from technical and conceptual problems regarding the application of the concepts of implicature and convention. It is proposed that the implicature mechanism should be replaced by expressive commitment attribution (developed for expressives in Hess Journal of Pragmatics, 129,13-33 2018, 2019). The account advocated here preserves crucial insights of Nunberg’s analysis (and incorporates elements of other pragmatic accounts, cf. Anderson and Lepore Noûs 47(1), 25-48, 2013a, Analytic Philosophy 54(3), 350-363, 2013b; Bolinger Nous, 51(3), 439-462, 2017), giving them a firmer conceptual basis. It supports a distinction between derogation and offensiveness of slurs that improves on the one proposed by Hom and May (Analytic Philosophy 54(3), 293-313 2013), and sheds light on puzzling borderline cases: the use of slurs by ignorant speakers and controversies surrounding the status of some words as potentially slurs.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorHess, Leopold
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T07:40:35Z
dc.date.available2024-01-26T07:40:35Z
dc.date.copyright2021-06-08
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.accesstimeAT_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.description.number2
dc.description.versionFINAL_PUBLISHED
dc.description.volume36
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/S12136-020-00445-X
dc.identifier.issn0353-5150
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/119983
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12136-020-00445-x
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationphilosophy
dc.relation.ispartofActa Analytica
dc.relation.pages263-290
dc.rightsCC-BY
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.titleSlurs and expressive commitments
dc.typeJournalArticle
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