Full Description
This Handbook represents a collective exploration of the emerging field of applied philosophy of language. The volume covers a broad range of areas where philosophy engages with linguistic aspects of our social world, including such hot topics as dehumanizing speech, dogwhistles, taboo language, pornography, appropriation, implicit bias, speech acts, and the ethics of communication. An international line-up of contributors adopt a variety of approaches and methods in their investigation of these linguistic phenomena, drawing on linguistics and the human and social sciences as well as on different philosophical subdisciplines. The aim is to map out fruitful areas of research and to stimulate discussion with thought-provoking essays by leading and emerging philosophers.
Contents
1: Luvell Anderson and Ernie Lepore: Introduction
2: Sally Haslanger and Stephen Yablo: Amelioration as Course Correction
3: Ángeles Eraña and Axel Barceló: A world where many worlds fit
4: J. L. Dowell: Silencing and Assertion: An Account of their Conversational Dynamic
5: Quill R. Kukla: The Pragmatics of Technologically Mediated Online Speech: Don>'t @ Me!
6: Robin Jeshion: The Truth About Slurs
7: Una Stojni'c and Ernie Lepore: Slurring Words
8: Rebecca Roache: On Passive Aggression
9: Timothy Jay: Taboo Word Research: Problems from the Past, Plans for the Future
10: Louise Antony: Speech-Act Theory in Feminist Thought
11: Mari Mikkola: Pornography as Oppressive Speech
12: Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini and Michael Glanzberg: Pronouns and Gender
13: E. M. Hernandez and Archie Crowley: How to Do Things with Gendered Words
14: Iz González Vázquez, Martina Rosola, and Anna Klieber: Beyond Pronouns: Gender Visibility and Neutrality across Languages
15: Anita L. Allen: Privacy, Critical Definition and Racial Justice
16: Jules Holroyd and Matthew J. Cull: Gender-neutrality and family leave policies
17: Esa Saarinen: In Praise of Spoken Philosophy
18: Teresa Blankmeyer Burke: Boxed Ears and Swiveling Fists: American Sign Language, Audism, and Power
19: Luvell Anderson: Resistance and Reclamation: Notorious Thugs
20: José Medina: Public Protest and Silencing
21: Jeffrey King: The Contents of Maps
22: Gabriel Greenberg: Map Semantics and the Geography of Meaning
23: John Kulvicki: The Semantics of Iconography and Code Words
24: Ray Drainville and Jennifer Saul: Visual and Linguistic Dogwhistles
25: erman Cappelen and Josh Dever: AI with Alien Content and Alien Metasemantics H
26: Daian Flórez: Semantic Change in the Language of Technology
27: Eliot Michaelson, Jessica Pepp, and Rachel Sterken: On Retweeting
28: Matthew McKeever: Ideology and Intersectionality
29: Tina Chanter and Andrew Cutrofello: Shakespeare's Proper Names
30: Noël Carroll: Art and Language
