Language and violence : pragmatic perspectives /

Language and violence : pragmatic perspectives /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Description:	vi, 250 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Pragmatics & beyond new series ; volume 279 Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 279.
Subject:	Violence in language. Communication -- Social aspects. Communication -- Political aspects. Communication -- Political aspects. Communication -- Social aspects. Violence in language.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11393137

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Other authors / contributors:	Silva, Daniel N., editor.
ISBN:	9789027256843 9027256845 9789027265227
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language. How do words wound? What is the relation between physical and linguistic violence? How do racial invectives, misogynous language, homophobic slurs, among other forms of hate speech, affect the body and make us vulnerable to conditions of injurability that language brings about? While investigating the limits that violence poses for everyday speech action, understanding, representation, and our shared frameworks of intelligibility, this collective volume theoretically bridges knowledge from canons in linguistic pragmatics, continental philosophy and linguistic/semiotic anthropology and the dialogic perspective of subjects who are located in the peripheries of South America and Europe. The scholarship gathered here intends to offer a perspective on the violence of words that is attentive to practices and sensibilities that do not always fit into hegemonic ideologies of self and language.

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Call Number:	P99.4.P72P8 n.s. v.279
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