Philosophy Talk. The Linguistics of Name-Calling
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can also hurt you. And language gives us surprisingly many ways to deride, hurt and demean _ from a subtly sneering intonation to hurtful and offensive names. How does such language work? And why is there so much of it around these days? Has our acerbic political culture ushered in a new era of name-calling? Or is name calling a phenomenon as old as language itself? John and Ken welcome back linguist and NPR commentator Geoffrey Nunberg, author of Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, The First Sixty Years, for a program recorded live at the Marsh Theatre in Berkeley.
Description
| Type of resource | sound recording-nonmusical |
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| Form | podcasts |
| Extent | 1 audio file |
| Place | The Marsh (San Francisco, Calif.) |
| Date created | January 20, 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
| Track configuration | Stereo |
Creators/Contributors
| Speaker | Perry, John, 1943- | |
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| Speaker | Taylor, Kenneth Allen, 1954-2019 | |
| Producer | Ben Manilla Productions, Inc. |
Subjects
| Subject | Invective |
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| Subject | Linguistics |
| Subject | Ethics |
| Genre | Radio talk shows |
Bibliographic information
| philosophytalk.org show page | |
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| Finding Aid |
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| Show# | 306.0 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/ss933fv4546 |
| Location | SC1118 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
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- Use and reproduction
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- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Philosophy Talk, 2002-
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