TY - JOUR AU - Cepollaro, Bianca PY - 2017/01/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Building Evaluation into Language JF - Phenomenology and Mind JA - Ph&Mind VL - IS - 11 SE - Session 3. Emotions, Language, and Hate Speech DO - 10.13128/Phe_Mi-20116 UR - https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7253 SP - 158-168 AB - <p>In this paper I spell out the conditions for a uniform analysis of thick terms and slurs, presented in Cepollaro and Stojanovic (2016). Our claim is that thick terms and slurs convey evaluations via presupposition and represent a device through which language implicitly conveys linguistically encoded evaluations. I introduce the presuppositional account (section 2) and elaborate on the conditions that need to be fulfilled for slurs and thick terms to be analyzed along similar lines (section 3) and I discuss the predictions that this approach offers about the issues of reference and extension (section 4). I conclude with some considerations about the role and functions of slurs and thick terms with respect to moral systems (section 5).</p> ER -