TY - GEN
T1 - How dogwhistles work
AU - Henderson, R.
AU - McCready, E.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of JSPS Kiban C Grant #16K02640, which partially supported this research, and to thank Heather Burnett and Judith Degen for extremely helpful discussion during the construction of the analysis presented here, as well as the participants at the 2017 Szklarska Poreba Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, the 2017 DGfS workshop on secondary content, LENLS 14 and the audience at Nagoya Gakuin University, especially Yu Izumi.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The paper focuses on the semantics and pragmatics of dogwhistles, namely expressions that send one message to an outgroup while at the same time sending a second (often taboo, controversial, or inflammatory) message to an ingroup. There are three questions that need to be resolved to understand the semantics and pragmatics of the phenomenon at hand: (i) What kind of meaning is dogwhistle content—implicature, conventional implicature, etc.; (ii) how do (some but not all) hearers recover the dogwhistle content, and (iii) how do expressions become endowed with dogwhistle content? These three questions are interrelated, but previous analyses have emphasized answers to a subset of these questions in ways that provide unsatisfactory answers to the others. The goal for this paper is to take stock of existing accounts, while showing a way forward that reconciles their differences.
AB - The paper focuses on the semantics and pragmatics of dogwhistles, namely expressions that send one message to an outgroup while at the same time sending a second (often taboo, controversial, or inflammatory) message to an ingroup. There are three questions that need to be resolved to understand the semantics and pragmatics of the phenomenon at hand: (i) What kind of meaning is dogwhistle content—implicature, conventional implicature, etc.; (ii) how do (some but not all) hearers recover the dogwhistle content, and (iii) how do expressions become endowed with dogwhistle content? These three questions are interrelated, but previous analyses have emphasized answers to a subset of these questions in ways that provide unsatisfactory answers to the others. The goal for this paper is to take stock of existing accounts, while showing a way forward that reconciles their differences.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-93794-6_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-93794-6_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049690397
SN - 9783319937939
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 231
EP - 240
BT - New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI-isAI Workshops, JURISIN, SKL, AI-Biz, LENLS, AAA, SCIDOCA, kNeXI, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Mineshima, Koji
A2 - Kojima, Kazuhiro
A2 - Satoh, Ken
A2 - Arai, Sachiyo
A2 - Bekki, Daisuke
A2 - Ohta, Yuiko
PB - Springer-Verlag
T2 - 9th JSAI International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2017
Y2 - 13 November 2017 through 15 November 2017
ER -