The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language

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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I: Social and Political Language: Methodological and Foundational Issues
	1 Conceptual Engineering in Philosophy
	2 Social Ontology
	3 An Invitation to Social and Political Metasemantics
	4 Linguistic Prescriptivism
	5 Speech-Act Theory: Social and Political Applications
	6 On the Uselessness of the Distinction Between Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory (At Least in the Philosophy of Language)
PART II: Non-Ideal Semantics and Pragmatics
	7 Lying, Deception, and Epistemic Advantage
	8 Propaganda
	9 Code Words
	10 Racist and Sexist Figleaves
	11 Protest and Speech Act Theory
	12 Defective Contexts
PART III: Linguistic Harms
	13 Varieties of Pejoratives
	14 Microaggressions and the Problem of Attributional Ambiguity
	15 Hermeneutical Injustice
	16 Social and Political Aspects of Generic Language and Speech
	17 Language Extinction
	18 “Laxwalxwash Potamáay Súngaan ‘Áawq // To Be Between the Blind Snake’s Teeth”: Indigenous Language Reclamation Between the Fangs of A (Simulated) Dilemma
PART IV: Applications
	19 Language and Free Speech
	20 Language and Ideology
	21 Language and Legitimation
	22 How Much Gender is Too Much Gender?
	23 On Language and Sexuality: Demisexuals, Polyamorous, Bambi Lesbians, and Other Queers
	24 The Language of Mental Illness
Index