Slurs and Thick Terms

What is the relation between language, communication, and values? In Slurs and Thick Terms, Bianca Cepollaro explores the ways in which certain pieces of evaluative language, such as slurs and so-called thick terms, not only reflect speakers’ moral perspectives, but also contribute to promote the speaker’s evaluative stance.

Bianca Cepollaro is research fellow of philosophy at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Milan).

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