Dogwhistles and Audience Design: A New Definition

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
MAURIZIO MASCITTI
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Abstract

In recent years, scholars have vividly debated over the definition and features of dogwhistles. As Jennifer Saul has widely argued in her works, political dogwhistles are powerful tools of manipulation. However, the current debate still lacks a convincing definition of dogwhistles, which sometimes are treated like spy codes while, at other times, they are labelled as instances of hate speech, as in Santana (2019). Instead, I propose a definition of dogwhistles that is based on the analysis of the audience design of utterances. I claim that dogwhistles are speech acts designed to secretly change the conversational role of a subset of the audience. Furthermore, they qualify as forms of disguisement - and not concealment, as claimed by the received view - that violate two important conversational responsibilities of the speaker (Clark and Carlson 1992).
狗哨和用户设计:新定义
近年来,学者们对狗哨的定义和特征进行了激烈的争论。正如詹妮弗•索尔(Jennifer Saul)在她的著作中广泛论述的那样,政治上的狗哨是强大的操纵工具。然而,目前的辩论仍然缺乏对狗哨的令人信服的定义,狗哨有时被视为间谍代码,而在其他时候,它们被标记为仇恨言论的实例,如桑塔纳(2019)。相反,我提出了一个基于受众话语设计分析的狗哨定义。我认为狗哨是一种语言行为,旨在秘密地改变一部分观众的对话角色。此外,它们有资格作为伪装的形式-而不是像公认的观点所声称的隐藏-违反了说话者的两个重要对话责任(Clark和Carlson 1992)。
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Manuscrito
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