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Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by Eleonora
Orlando and Andres Saab,focuses on the analysis of the expressive
aspects of slur-words, namely, those words prima facie related to
the conveyance of contemptuous or derogatory feelings for the
members of a certain group of people identified in terms of their
ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, political ideology, and
other personal qualities. In as far as they are used to express
emotional attitudes, slurs are, thus, a kind of expressive words.
This collection provides different hypotheses regarding the way in
which the expressive import of slurs and other related expressive
words is semantically encoded in the grammar and how their meaning
impacts other aspects related to their use in different practices
of linguistic communication. These linguistic practices are
usually, but not always, related to segregation and discrimination
of particular human groups. Therefore, any contribution to the
theory of slur meaning is, directly or indirectly, also a
contribution to a better understanding of those practices and to
finding the best way to eradicate them.
Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by Eleonora
Orlando and Andres Saab,focuses on the analysis of the expressive
aspects of slur-words, namely, those words prima facie related to
the conveyance of contemptuous or derogatory feelings for the
members of a certain group of people identified in terms of their
ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, political ideology, and
other personal qualities. In as far as they are used to express
emotional attitudes, slurs are, thus, a kind of expressive words.
This collection provides different hypotheses regarding the way in
which the expressive import of slurs and other related expressive
words is semantically encoded in the grammar, and how their meaning
impacts other aspects related to their use in different practices
of linguistic communication. These linguistic practices are
usually, but not always, related to practices of segregation and
discrimination of particular human groups. Therefore, any
contribution to the theory of slur meaning is, directly or
indirectly, also a contribution to a better understanding of those
practices and to finding the best way to eradicate them.
Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics combines the
insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of
fictional language. Its central idea is familiar to anyone exposed
to the ways of narrative fiction, namely the notion of a fictional
teller. Starting with premises having to do with fictional names
such as 'Holmes' or 'Emma', Stefano Predelli develops Radical
Fictionalism, a theory that is subsequently applied to central
themes in the analysis of fiction. Among other things, he discusses
the distinction between storyworlds and narrative peripheries, the
relationships between homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narrative,
narrative time, unreliability, and closure. The final chapters
extend Radical Fictionalism to critical discourse, as Predelli
introduces the ideas of critical and biased retelling, and pauses
on the relationships between Radical Fictionalism and talk about
literary characters.
Proper Names explores the aims and scope of the Millian approach to
the semantics of proper names. Stefano Predelli covers the core
semantic aspects of Millianism, and develops them against the
background of an independently motivated pre-semantic picture,
grounded on the distinction between meaning and use. Accordingly,
the volume defends Millianism from certain popular misconceptions
and criticisms, it highlights its explanatory potential, and it
tackles a variety of traditional philosophical problems from its
viewpoint. In particular, Predelli discusses the relationships
between co-referential names, the issue of non truth-conditional
meaning for proper names, the role of onomastics in a theory of the
use of names, the phenomenon of empty names, cases of so-called
fictional names and names from myth and false scientific theories,
and apparently predicative uses of proper names.
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