none 10.1075/pbns.279 John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 93688450 2608780 1420619 202412101826000017 10.1075 2024-12-10T12:35:34Z 2017-10-17T06:51:38Z 8 0922-842X 10.1075/pbns https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns Daniel N. Silva Federal University of Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6098-5185 Pragmatic Perspectives This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language. How do words wound? What is the relation between physical and linguistic violence? How do racial invectives, misogynous language, homophobic slurs, among other forms of hate speech, affect the body and make us vulnerable to conditions of injurability that language brings about? While investigating the limits that violence poses for everyday speech action, understanding, representation, and our shared frameworks of intelligibility, this collective volume theoretically bridges knowledge from canons in linguistic pragmatics, continental philosophy and linguistic/semiotic anthropology and the dialogic perspective of subjects who are located in the peripheries of South America and Europe. The scholarship gathered here intends to offer a perspective on the violence of words that is attentive to practices and sensibilities that do not always fit into hegemonic ideologies of self and language. 279 11 9 2017 10 17 2017 9789027256843 9789027265227 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/pbns.279 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027265227 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/pbns.279/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027265227.pdf