UNMENTIONABLES: SOME REMARKS ON TABOO

• Authors: Predelli Stefano
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper discusses the phenomenon of linguistic taboo. It contrasts that phenomenon with the truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional dimensions of meaning, paying particular attention to slurs and coarseness. It then highlights the peculiarities of taboo and its meta-semantic repercussions: taboo is a meaning-related feature that is nevertheless directly associated with the tokening process. In the conclusion, it gestures to the role of taboo within a theory of linguistic action and the standard framework for conversational exchanges. On these results, I am going to end by looking at some of the harms that epistemic injustice inflicts upon its victims.

Keywords

EN

TABOO; NON-TRUTH-CONDITIONAL MEANING; DEROGATION; THEORY OF LINGUISTIC ACTION

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 726 – 744

Contributors

author

Predelli Stefano

• University of Nottingham, Department of Philosophy, Room C43 Humanities Building, NG7 2RD Nottingham, United Kingdom

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28312