{"product_id":"slurs-and-thick-terms-when-language-encodes-values-9781793610522","title":"Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the relation between language, communication, and values? In Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values, Bianca Cepollaro explores the ways in which certain pieces of evaluative language not only reflect speakers’ moral perspectives, but also contribute to promoting their evaluative stance. She focuses on slurs—the prototypical example of hate speech, including racial and homophobic epithets—and so-called thick terms, that is, those expressions, much discussed in metaethics, that mix description and evaluation such as ‘lewd,’ ‘chaste,’ ‘generous,’ or ‘selfish.’ This book argues that in employing such terms, speakers not only say something purely factual about people and things, but also presuppose certain values, as if they were common ground among the conversation participants. Cepollaro illustrates how this linguistic mechanism effectively explains the pervasive social and moral effects of evaluative language. Using a multidisciplinary approach, she tackles issues in philosophy of language, linguistics, ethics, and metaethics. Moreover, the theoretical investigation takes into consideration and discusses empirical data from psychology and experimental philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. The Presuppositional Account of Hybrid Evaluatives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Hybrid Evaluatives: a New Class\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Semantics of Hybrid Evaluatives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Dynamics of Hybrid Evaluatives: Complicity, Propaganda, Rejection, Negotiation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Defending a Uniform Presuppositional Account of Slurs and Thick Terms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Non-standard Uses of Hybrid Evaluatives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Rival Theories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Truth-conditional Theories: It’s Just a Matter of Semantics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Deflationary Theories: It’s Just a Matter of Pragmatics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. An alternative Hybrid Theory: Conventional Implicature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042625192279,"sku":"9781793610522","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793610522.jpg?v=1750954906","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/slurs-and-thick-terms-when-language-encodes-values-9781793610522","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}