Just words : on speech and hidden harm /

Just words : on speech and hidden harm /

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Author / Creator:	McGowan, Mary Kate, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Description:	xi, 209 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Oral communication -- Social aspects. Sociolinguistics. Hate speech. Hate speech. Sociolinguistics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11865219

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ISBN:	0198829701 9780198829706
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Electronic version: McGowan, Mary Kate. Just words. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019 9780191868207

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Preliminaries
2. Conversational Exercitives
3. On Differences Between Standard and Conversational Exercitives
4. The General Phenomenon: Covert Exercitives
5. Speech and Oppression
6. On Pornography: Subordination and Silencing
7. Race, Speech, and Free Speech Law
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index