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Author:   Bianca Cepollaro
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9781793610522

ISBN 10:   1793610525
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   15 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. The Presuppositional Account of Hybrid Evaluatives Chapter 1. Hybrid Evaluatives: a New Class Chapter 2. The Semantics of Hybrid Evaluatives Chapter 3. The Dynamics of Hybrid Evaluatives: Complicity, Propaganda, Rejection, Negotiation Chapter 4. Defending a Uniform Presuppositional Account of Slurs and Thick Terms Chapter 5. Non-standard Uses of Hybrid Evaluatives Part II. Rival Theories Chapter 6. Truth-conditional Theories: It’s Just a Matter of Semantics Chapter 7. Deflationary Theories: It’s Just a Matter of Pragmatics Chapter 8. An alternative Hybrid Theory: Conventional Implicature Conclusion

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Cepollaro skillfully bridges two otherwise distinct subfields of philosophy; she brings work on slur terms from the philosophy of language into direct contact with meta-ethical debates about thick evaluative terms. The result is more than just an enhancement of each subfield; it is a testament to the fruitfulness of such inter-subfield exploration. Cepollaro offers us a nuanced, beautifully-defended unified account of hybrid evaluatives. The book is clear, detailed, empirically-informed, and thorough; it also provides insight into such hot topics as propaganda, hate speech, and reclamation; this book rewards its reader throughout.--Mary Kate McGowan, Wellesley College In recent years, philosophy of language has taken a pragmatic turn, focusing on communication in political and socially significant contexts, and generally on the semantics and pragmatics of moral, aesthetic, and broadly evaluative discourse. Bianca Cepollaro's remarkable book, Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values, is an important contribution to this growing literature in applied philosophy of language. This book offers a robust defense of an account of a subclass of evaluatives: slurs and thick terms. On the hybrid semantic account offered, these evaluative terms have a descriptive truth-conditional content, and presuppose values as if they were common ground. Cepollaro gives a meticulous analysis of the presuppositional behavior of these expressions with respect to projection and rejection, while illustrating the dynamics of their use in concrete contexts of propaganda and hate speech. She also convincingly shows that the hybrid evaluative semantic theory she develops is preferable to truth-conditional and to deflationary accounts of slurs and thick terms.--Teresa Marques, University of Barcelona

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Bianca Cepollaro is research fellow of philosophy at the San Raffaele University.

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