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Conférence - Robert May : The Semantics of Ideological Words
François Recanati
Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit
Collège de France
Année 2023-2024
Ideology and Propaganda
Conférence - Robert May : The Semantics of Ideological Words
Robert May
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Linguistics, University of California, Davis
Résumé
In the second lecture, we turn to an application of the account of propaganda, ideological words that abstractly encapsulate core values of an ideology as their meaning. The focus will be on pejorative words – racist, sexist, homophobic, religious epithets, and so on. These words, we argue, are expressions of…
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