Australasian Journal of Philosophy

1999

DOI: 10.1080/00048409912349061

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Silencing For Fragmented Minds1

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“…More dramatically, however, she will sometimes be unable to form communicative intentions to utter something with some particular illocutionary force. Adapting a related example from Langton and West (: 186–187), suppose the Wife wants to order the Husband – or the Slave to order the Master in Langton & West's scenario – to cook dinner. Because her oppression is internalized, the Wife also believes that her desire is improper and ought to be ignored.…”

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“…She would only do so if she is disposed, for some reason, to misrepresent her communicative options to herself. In principle, this kind of explanation is available to the conventionalists as well, but they carry the additional burden of explaining why someone would perform a communicative act which they know is not even part of ‘the master‐slave language game’ (Langton and West, : 187).…”

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Silencing without Convention

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Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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Silencing is usually explained in terms of conventionalism about the nature of speech acts. More recently, theorists have tried to develop intentionalist theories of the phenomenon. I argue, however, that if intentionalists are to accommodate the conventionalists' main insight, namely, that silencing can be so extreme as to render certain types of speech act completely unavailable to victims, they must take two assumptions on board. First, it must be possible that speakers' communicative intentions are opaque to the speakers themselves. Second, it needs to be assumed that structural oppression can have hidden psychological effects on its victims. Because both assumptions can be motivated independently, I argue that silencing can be fully understood without appealing to linguistic conventions.

“…More dramatically, however, she will sometimes be unable to form communicative intentions to utter something with some particular illocutionary force. Adapting a related example from Langton and West (: 186–187), suppose the Wife wants to order the Husband – or the Slave to order the Master in Langton & West's scenario – to cook dinner. Because her oppression is internalized, the Wife also believes that her desire is improper and ought to be ignored.…”

Section: Silencing For Fragmented Mindsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…She would only do so if she is disposed, for some reason, to misrepresent her communicative options to herself. In principle, this kind of explanation is available to the conventionalists as well, but they carry the additional burden of explaining why someone would perform a communicative act which they know is not even part of ‘the master‐slave language game’ (Langton and West, : 187).…”

Section: The Psychology Of Being Oppressedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Silencing without Convention

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Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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Silencing is usually explained in terms of conventionalism about the nature of speech acts. More recently, theorists have tried to develop intentionalist theories of the phenomenon. I argue, however, that if intentionalists are to accommodate the conventionalists' main insight, namely, that silencing can be so extreme as to render certain types of speech act completely unavailable to victims, they must take two assumptions on board. First, it must be possible that speakers' communicative intentions are opaque to the speakers themselves. Second, it needs to be assumed that structural oppression can have hidden psychological effects on its victims. Because both assumptions can be motivated independently, I argue that silencing can be fully understood without appealing to linguistic conventions.

“…Langton and West (1999) argue that pornography expresses, via a complex combination of presupposition and contextual implicature, various hateful messages about women (e.g. women enjoy being raped).…”

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On Pragmatics, Exercitive Speech Acts and Pornography

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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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Suppose that a suspect being questioned by the police says, "I think I'd better talk to a lawyer." Whether that suspect has invoked her right to an attorney depends on which particular speech act(s) her utterance is. If she is merely thinking aloud about what she ought to do, then she has not invoked that right. If, on the other hand, she has thereby requested a lawyer, she has. Similarly, suppose that an unhappily married man says "I want my wife dead." Whether he has thereby solicited his wife's murder depends on which particular speech act(s) his utterance is. If he is merely describing his desires, he has committed no crime. If, by contrast, he has thereby hired an assassin, he has. As one can see, experts on speech acts (e.g. philosophers, linguists, psychologists and sociologists) have a lot to say about various issues in the law. I believe that expertise in speech act theory also illuminates various issues regarding free speech. In what follows, we consider how speech act theory may apply to certain arguments regarding the free speech status of pornography. In particular, we consider several speech act accounts of MacKinnon's claim that pornography subordinates women, but, before turning to such accounts, some background is offered.

“…Finally, for completeness sake, the third sense in which we may understand a given utterance is simply as a locutionary act – the uttering of a ‘sentence with particular meaning, as traditionally conceived’. Langton (1993, p. 301).…”

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Pornography

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Philosophy Compass

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This article provides an overview of the key philosophical themes and debates in discussions of pornography. In particular, I consider the major positions on how pornography ought to be defined, when (and if ) it should be regulated, whether it is best understood as speech (or action), whether there is evidence that is it harmful. I argue in favor of what is known as the civil rights approach to pornography, as reflected in the work of Catharine MacKinnon.

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