Just Words : On Speech and Hidden Harm

Name: Just Words
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780192897398
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ISBN: 9780192897398

by Mary Kate McGowan

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 019289739X

ISBN-13 9780192897398

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 30th, 2021

Print length 224 Pages

Weight 282 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 13.70 x 1.40 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy of language Sociolinguistics Ethics & moral philosophy Social & political philosophy Ethics and moral philosophy Social and political philosophy

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We all know that speech can be harmful. But how? Mary Kate McGowan argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm. She investigates such harms as oppression, subordination, and discrimination in such forms of speech as sexist remarks, racist hate speech, pornography, verbal triggers, and micro-aggressions.

We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are these harms, and how exactly does the speech in question bring them 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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