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New Work on Speech Acts New Work on Speech Acts edited by Daniel Fogal, Daniel W. Harris, and Matt Moss 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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Contents PrefaceandAcknowledgements vii Contributors ix 1. SpeechActs:TheContemporaryTheoreticalLandscape 1 DanielW.Harris,DanielFogal,andMattMoss 2. Insinuation,CommonGround,andtheConversationalRecord 40 ElisabethCamp 3. Clause-Type,Force,andNormativeJudgmentintheSemantics ofImperatives 67 NateCharlow 4. ARefinementandDefenseoftheForce/ContentDistinction 99 MitchellS.Green 5. TypesofSpeechActs 123 PeterHanks 6. BlockingasCounter-Speech 144 RaeLangton 7. ExplicitIndirection 165 ErnieLeporeandMatthewStone 8. OnCovertExercitives:SpeechandtheSocialWorld 185 MaryKateMcGowan 9. ForceandConversationalStates 202 SarahE.MurrayandWilliamB.Starr 10. TheSocialLifeofSlurs 237 GeoffNunberg 11. CommitmenttoPriorities 296 PaulPortner 12. SpeechActsinDiscourseContext 317 CraigeRoberts 13. Dogwhistles,PoliticalManipulation,andPhilosophyofLanguage 360 JenniferSaul 14. DynamicPragmatics,StaticSemantics 384 RobertStalnaker 15. ExpressivismbyForce 400 SethYalcin NameIndex 431 TermIndex 435 Preface and Acknowledgements Inrecentdecades,speech-acttheoryhascometospanmanydisciplinesthatwould normally be disconnected. Foundational work in the philosophy of language con- tinues unabated, but speech acts have also made notable appearances in formal semantics,pragmatics,sociolinguistics,computerscience,epistemology,moralphi- losophy, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, gender theory, and the philosophy of law. What is particularly exciting is that these conversations have not been entirely siloed: new developments in each area have made their way into neighboringliteratures,withtheconceptsofspeech-acttheoryservingasvectorsof intellectualexchange. Our ambition has been to further this exchange, both by publishing papers that advance existing literatures and by bringing these literatures together for cross- pollination.Wehopethatreaderswhohavecometolearnaboutslurs,dogwhistles, andhatespeechwillstayfordebatesaboutthesemanticsandpragmaticsofimper- atives and the nature of the force/content distinction, for example. And we hope that those who have been drawn to the volume for work in formal semantics and pragmaticswillbeexcitedtofindthattheirworkintersectsagenda-settingworkin, for example, feminist philosophy. In short, we hope that the volume can provide a spaceinwhichtobedrawnoutofone’sdisciplinarycomfortzone. Wehavemadeapairofeditorialchoicesthatbearmentioning.First,wepresent the papers in alphabetical order by author name, rather than splitting the volume into thematic sections. Our main reason for this is that—happily—many of the essays would span the relevant categories. Second, several of the papers deal with the semantics and pragmatics of slurs, one of whose characteristic features is that theirderogatoryeffectsarenotcancellableundermentionordirectquotation.There is consequently disagreement about whether and how their mention should be minimizedorcircumventedintalksandpublicationsaboutslurs.Wehaveleftitto ourauthors’discretionwhethertoexplicitlymentionslursoradoptstrategiestoavoid theirmention,sincetheissueisamatterofsubstantivedebate. The project of this volume had its start in a conference held September 27–29 2013atColumbiaUniversity,alsonamedNewWorkonSpeechActs.Wethankallthe participantsandtheaudience,aswellasColumbiaUniversity,CUNY,andCUNY’s Docotoral Students’ Council for their support in making that event possible. We oweaspecialdebttotheadministrationoftheColumbiaphilosophydepartment,in particularStaceyQuartaroandMaiaBernstein,withoutwhoseeffortstheconference couldnothaveenjoyedthesuccessitdid.Theconferenceextendedourcollaborative work on the research group we founded together in fall of 2011, the New York PhilosophyofLanguageWorkshop.Thatwefeltinspiredtoorganizetheconference wasdueinlargeparttotheworkshop’sspeakers,attendees,andsupporters,whomade itthesuccessitcontinuestobe. viii preface and acknowledgements Forsuggestingthatweeditthisvolume,andforagreatdealoffurtherguidance,we thankPeterMomtchiloff.TwoanonymousrefereesforOxfordUniversityPressgave usveryusefulsuggestionsthatledustoaddseveralpapers.LeahFortganghelpedus withtheindexandwithproofreading.ElmarUnnsteinssongaveususefulfeedback onourintroductoryessay. Contributors Elisabeth Camp,RutgersUniversity Nate Charlow,UniversityofToronto Mitchell S. Green,UniversityofConnecticut Peter Hanks,UniversityofMinnesota Rae Langton,UniversityofCambridge Ernie Lepore,RutgersUniversity Mary Kate McGowan,WellesleyCollege Sarah E. Murray,CornellUniversity Geoff Nunberg,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Paul Portner,GeorgetownUniversity Craige Roberts,OhioStateUniversity Jennifer Saul,UniversityofSheffield Robert Stalnaker,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology William B. Starr,CornellUniversity Matthew Stone,RutgersUniversity Seth Yalcin,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley
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