Language and Violence
Pragmatic perspectives
Editor
This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language. How do words wound? What is the relation between physical and linguistic violence? How do racial invectives, misogynous language, homophobic slurs, among other forms of hate speech, affect the body and make us vulnerable to conditions of injurability that language brings about? While investigating the limits that violence poses for everyday speech action, understanding, representation, and our shared frameworks of intelligibility, this collective volume theoretically bridges knowledge from canons in linguistic pragmatics, continental philosophy and linguistic/semiotic anthropology and the dialogic perspective of subjects who are located in the peripheries of South America and Europe. The scholarship gathered here intends to offer a perspective on the violence of words that is attentive to practices and sensibilities that do not always fit into hegemonic ideologies of self and language.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 279] 2017. vi, 250 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Investigating violence in language: An introductionDaniel Silva | pp. 1–30
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Part I. The language of violence: Conflict, policing, frontiers
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Chapter 1. The invention of violenceRenzo Taddei | pp. 33–56
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Chapter 2. Voice and silence in the suburbs of São Paulo: State, community and the meanings of violenceAna Paula Galdeano | pp. 57–78
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Chapter 3. From the side of the road to the borders of the page: Mapping the legibility of people and words at the marginsRuth Goldstein | pp. 79–104
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Part II. The violence of language: Hate speech, speech act, injuries
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Chapter 4. The circulation of violence in discourseDaniel Silva | pp. 107–124
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Chapter 5. Racist speech as a linguistic discriminatory practice in Brazil: Between the speech act’s reference and effectsKarla Cristina dos Santos Allen | pp. 125–140
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Chapter 6. Free speech, hate speech, and hate beards: Language ideologies of Dutch populismMichiel Leezenberg | pp. 141–168
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Part III. The intersections of violence, bodies and languages: Epistemology, narrative, corporealities
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Chapter 7. On languages, bodies and epistemic violenceJoana Plaza Pinto | pp. 171–188
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Chapter 8. Queering violence and narrative: Voices from a marginalized communityElizabeth Sara Lewis and Liliana Cabral Bastos | pp. 189–226
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Chapter 9. Discursive constructions of deviance in the narratives of a prison inmateLiana Biar | pp. 227–248
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Index | pp. 249–250
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics