Universität Wien

180246 SE The Politics of Language (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Donnerstag 09.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 16.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 23.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 30.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 20.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 27.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 04.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 11.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 25.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 01.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 15.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 22.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Donnerstag 29.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Language is not just used to talk about the world or communicate information, but also to do things in the social-political arena: to approve, convince, create new norms and social facts, but also to deceive, derogate, dehumanize, and spew propaganda. And questions about how language should be used, which languages should be used, and about language preservation are themselves political questions. Such social-political aspects of language-use can be studied from a variety of perspectives. In this course we will see how they can be illuminated with the help of theoretical tools from philosophy of language. We will study controversies about pronouns, work on the semantics of pejoratives and slurs, implicature and coded communication, speech act theory and its applications in feminist philosophy, conversational scorekeeping and accomodation, the lying vs. misleading distinction and questions about plausible deniability, as well as worries about language extinction. As a result, you will become equipped with the theoretical tools to understand and engage with these issues as they arise in contemporary society.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

First: midterm essay, deadline: 18.05, 40%
Second: final essay, deadline: TBD, 60%

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Minimum requirements: regular attendance, completion of all assessments
Assessment criteria: the overall grade will be a weighted average of the two partial grades: mid-term paper (40%), final essay (60%).

Prüfungsstoff

The first essay will be on a topic derived from the first part of the course (W1-W10), the second can be either a substantial development of the first or an entirely new essay on a topic from the second part. I will suggest possible topics as we go along.

Literatur

We will read a range of texts from Austin, Bolinger, Camp, Dembroff & Wodak, Grice, Haslanger, Hom, Jeshion, Khoo, Kukla, Langton, Lewis, McGowan, Nowak, Saul, Stalnaker etc. For more info, see the syllabus.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Do 27.04.2023 13:27