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26Perlocutionary Frustration: A Speech Act Analysis of MicroaggressionsPhilosophia 51 (3): 1293-1308. 2022.In this paper I provide a speech act analysis of microaggressions. After adopting a notion of microaggressions found in the political philosophy literature, I provide an account of both the illocutionary force and perlocutionary effects of microaggressions. I show that there are two parts to microaggressions’ illocutionary force: (i) the general Austinian linguistic conventions; (ii) socio-political conventions that change the speech act into a microaggression. Despite the varied speech acts tha…Read more
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Philosophy of Language |
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Metaphysics |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
20th Century Philosophy |
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