Metadata of the chapter that will be visualized in SpringerLink Book Title Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History Series Title Chapter Title Refusing to Endorse: A Must Explanation for Pejoratives Copyright Year 2018 Copyright HolderName The Author(s) Corresponding Author Family Name Penco Particle Given Name Carlo Prefix Suffix Role Division Organization University of Genoa Address Genoa, Italy Email
[email protected] Abstract In her analysis of pejoratives, Eva Picardi rejects a too sharp separation between descriptive and expressive content. Carlo Penco reconstructs some of her arguments, endorsing Eva’s criticism of Williamson’s analysis of Dummett and developing a suggestion by Manuel Garcia Carpintero on a speech act analysis of pejoratives. Eva’s main concern is accounting for our instinctive refusal to endorse an assertion containing pejoratives because it suggests a picture of reality we do not share. Her stance might be further developed claiming that uses of pejoratives not only suggest, but also promote a wrong picture of reality. Our refusal to endorse implies rejecting not only a wrong picture of reality but also a call for participation to what that picture promotes. Layout: A5 HuSSci Book ID: 461020_1_En Book ISBN: 978-3-319-95777-7 Chapter No.: 10 Date: 5 July 2018 14:28 Page: 1/21 Author Proof 1 2 Refusing to Endorse: A Must Explanation 3 for Pejoratives 4 Carlo Penco 5 1 INTRODUCTION 6 Since David Kaplan’s “The Meaning of ‘Ouch’ and ‘Oops’”, there has AQ1 7 been a wide amount of discussions on every side of pejorative expressions 8 or slurs, with different kinds of interpretations and new topics, like the 1 9 problem of appropriation and perspectival shift.