Just words : on speech and hidden harm / Mary Kate McGowan.

• Introduction -- Preliminaries -- Conversational exercitives -- On differences between standard and conversational exercitives -- The general phenomenon: covert exercitives -- Speech and oppression -- On pornography: subordination and silencing -- Race, speech, and free speech law -- Conclusion.

• We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms about? Mary Kate McGowan identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech constitutes, rather than merely causes, harm. She argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm. McGowan illustrates this theory by considering many categories of speech including sexist remarks, racist hate speech, pornography, verbal triggers for stereotype threat, micro-aggressions, political dog whistles, slam poetry, and even the hanging of posters. Just Words explores a variety of harms - such as oppression, subordination, discrimination, domination, harassment, and marginalization - and ways in which these harms can be remedied. 

Ämnesord

Språksociologi  (sao)

Språk och samhälle  (sao)

Hets mot folkgrupp  (sao)

Sociolinguistics.  (LCSH)

Hate speech.  (LCSH)

Oral communication  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Hate speech.  (fast)

Sociolinguistics.  (fast)

Språksociologi  (kao)

Sociolinguistics  (kao//eng)

Sexism  (kao)

Sexism  (kao//eng)

Rasism  (kao)

Racism  (kao//eng)

Härskartekniker  (kao)

Master suppression techniques  (kao//eng)

Samtal  (kao)

Conversation  (kao//eng)

Oral communication  -- Social aspects. (fast)

Verbal kommunikation  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Sociolinguistics  (lcsh)

Hate speech  (lcsh)

Language and culture ; Sociolinguistics  (lcsh)

Klassifikation

P40 (LCC)

302.2242 (DDC)

Bra (kssb/8 (machine generated))