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Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm
Contributor(s): McGowan, Mary Kate (Author)

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 ISBN: 0198829701     ISBN-13: 9780198829706
Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
OUR PRICE: $50.35  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Language
- Philosophy | Political
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
Dewey: 306.44
LCCN: 2018958114
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" L (0.85 lbs) 222 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms 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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