{"title":"Language and Legitimation","authors":"R. Simpson","doi":"10.4324/9781003164869-26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164869-26","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326978,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126759171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language and Ideology","authors":"Eric H. Swanson","doi":"10.4324/9781003164869-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164869-25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326978,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language","volume":"421 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124209588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Language of Mental Illness","authors":"Renée Jorgensen Bolinger","doi":"10.4324/9781003164869-29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164869-29","url":null,"abstract":"Battles over how to use our language are fought over all kinds of terms, but often in scattered skirmishes across a wide range of social platforms and contexts, and so are difficult to trace. But since the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is used to standardize the meanings of psychiatric terms, it acts as a sort of lightning rod concentrating the disputes over the language of mental illness, making it easier to see the relationships between issues, the interests of varying stakeholders, and background beliefs about the nature of underlying phenomena. This is one reason why the language in and around psychiatry is particularly rich terrain for political philosophy of language. It also resists a sort of naïve-realist first response— that the way to settle these disputes is simply to find out what these terms ‘really’ mean, and then use them that way. The language of mental illness is pervasive, and everywhere political.","PeriodicalId":326978,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115990054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Much Gender Is Too Much Gender?","authors":"Robin Dembroff, Daniel Wodak","doi":"10.4324/9781003164869-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164869-27","url":null,"abstract":"Languages form a spectrum from having fewer to more gender-specific terms. On one end of the spectrum we have languages like Hebrew. As Ilana Masad explained in an article on The Toast, in Hebrew “one cannot speak in the firstor second-person without indicating gender. The word ‘I’ is ungendered, but any verb connected to it in present or future tenses is gendered. Thus the phrase, “I want a cookie” becomes, in literal translation, “I female-want a female-cookie”.”1 On the other end of the spectrum, we have languages like Finnish, which does not have grammatical gender or any gender-specific pronouns. Somewhere between Finnish and Hebrew, we find English.2 Certain parts of speech in English are gender-specific—for instance, singular third-person pronouns (he and she). This makes English more gendered than languages like Finnish. But firstand second-person pronouns (I and you), and the verbs connected to them, are gender-neutral in English, which makes English less gendered than languages like Hebrew.","PeriodicalId":326978,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114643667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defective Contexts","authors":"Andrew Peet","doi":"10.4324/9781003164869-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164869-15","url":null,"abstract":"Successful communication depends not only on our knowledge of language, but also our knowledge of context. If a speaker utters the sentence “he is going to get burnt,” we will have to rely on our knowledge of the context in order to grasp what proposition they are trying to express. If there is a mutually salient individual in front of us, whose trousers have just caught on fire, then we will know that this salient individual is the intended referent. If we were talking about our mutual friend Frank, and somebody has just asked how Frank’s latest business deal is going, it will be clear that Frank is the intended referent. Two completely different propositions are expressed in these situations, and without contextual knowledge, we would not be able to tell which proposition was expressed.","PeriodicalId":326978,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130661162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language Extinction","authors":"E. Nowak","doi":"10.4324/9781003164869-21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164869-21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326978,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133541207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hermeneutical Injustice","authors":"Rebecca Mason","doi":"10.4324/9781003164869-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164869-19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326978,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134401222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linguistic Prescriptivism","authors":"A. Barber, R. Stainton","doi":"10.4324/9781003164869-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164869-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326978,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129343480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protest and Speech Act Theory","authors":"M. Chrisman, G. Hubbs","doi":"10.4324/9781003164869-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164869-14","url":null,"abstract":"During the final match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, four women in security uniforms temporarily halted play early in the second half by running across the pitch. The goal of their intervention was not immediately obvious to the average spectator. At the moment it happened, it was not unreasonable to think that their aim was the attention of infamy. One of the women managed to high-ten French star Kylian Mbappé—perhaps she wanted to convey her affection for his play. After the match, a Facebook post clarified the point of their action: these were members of Pussy Riot, and they had disrupted the match to express dissatisfaction about and make political demands of Vladimir Putin’s regime. The pitch invasion, it turned out, was an act of political protest. 1 Our interest in this essay is to explicate the communicative structure of protest by recourse to speech-act theory. Even in non-verbal protests such as the Pussy Riot example, we will argue, protests contain an implicit communicative structure that speech-act theory can make explicit. Our analysis will also allow us to distinguish protest from similar sorts of complaints and demands. We proceed in three stages. First, we make some preliminary distinctions that help to identify protests as a complex, dual-aspect speech act. We next improve on this analysis by mobilizing the idea of a felicity condition of a speech act; specifically, we will argue that the speech act of protest can be understood as having a complex felicity condition stemming from the felicity conditions of making a specific kind of evaluative claim and a connected prescription. We then kick away the ladder of felicity conditions, further improving the analysis by arguing that the structure of the two connected communicative aspects of protest can be understood in terms of the normative statuses presumed by and affected through protest. Our account here belongs to previous work we have done on the place of protest in non-ideal political theory. As we have discussed elsewhere (Chrisman and Hubbs 2018, 168), it is imaginable that an ideal polity would have no need, and so no place","PeriodicalId":326978,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126268449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Ontology","authors":"M. Mikkola","doi":"10.4324/9781003164869-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164869-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326978,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116229058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}