Date of Award
1-1-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A. in Philosophy
First Advisor
Donovan Wishon
Second Advisor
Robert Barnard
School
University of Mississippi
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
There are broadly two kinds of accounts of slurs: ones that place the derogation in the content of what is said or some concept associated with the words themselves or those that argue derogation takes places in the expression of some state of the slur-user – that derogation is part of the use of the slurring words. In this paper I argue that an expressivist account of slurs can be combined with a semantic account in which the truth conditions of the semantic account are fictional.
Recommended Citation
Geday, Celine J., "Fictionalist truth conditions for an expressivist semantics of slurs" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1755.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1755