Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm
ISBN-13:
9780198829706
ISBN-10:
0198829701
Author:
Mary Kate McGowan
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
Category:
Linguistics
,
Words, Language & Grammar
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ISBN-13:
9780198829706
ISBN-10:
0198829701
Author:
Mary Kate McGowan
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
Category:
Linguistics
,
Words, Language & Grammar
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Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm (ISBN-13: 9780198829706 and ISBN-10: 0198829701), written by authors
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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.
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