2023
DOI: 10.1590/0100-6045.2023.v46n3.eo
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Dogwhistling as a narrative-evoking form of communication

ELEONORA ORLANDO

Abstract: In this essay I defend the view that dogwhistling is a a speech act performed with a narrative-evoking perlocutionary effect in the so-called target audience. What is evoked is a certain kind of narrative, previously endorsed by the relevant audience, which endows its members with the use of some linguistic expressions (and some non-linguistic representations) with nonconventional, derived meanings. In the dogwhistling scenarios, those derived meanings are recovered and put to work by means of different mechan… Show more

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