Words in action : an introduction to the social philosophy of language
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Words in action : an introduction to the social philosophy of language
Oxford University Press, [2025] , , c2025
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-337) and index
Summary:"This textbook is an authoritative introduction to central issues in the burgeoning subfield of social philosophy of language. The text offers an accessible and engaging presentation of these issues, and is designed to serve as the basis for courses at both undergraduate and beginning graduate levels. Topics covered include: lying and deception, telling and testimony, silencing, jokes, slurs, linguistic manipulation, linguistic oppression, consent, promises, threats, gendered language, and much more. The text also introduces important tools and concepts from the philosophy of language that are relevant to theorizing these issues, including: saying, assertion, conversational and conventional implicature, taxonomies of speech acts, indirect speech acts, common ground, conversational score, semantic and pragmatic presupposition, at-issue and not-at-issue content, and more"-- Provided by publisher