Experimental Philosophy of Language: Perspectives, Methods, and Prospects

Download or read book Experimental Philosophy of Language: Perspectives, Methods, and Prospects written by David Bordonaba-Plou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the current state of experimental philosophy of language, drawing attention to corpus methods. The volume highlights new trends in experimental philosophy of language, thus exploring the future’s discipline. It includes cross-linguistics studies that reveal the differences and similarities in how speakers of different languages use specific terms, and scrutinizes methodological advances used in experimental philosophy of language. The book also includes politically engaged experimental philosophy of language studies focusing on slurs, pejoratives, and hate speech. The topic’s interdisciplinary nature makes the volume of interest to a broad range of scholars across disciplines including philosophy, linguistics, philology, psychology, and computational linguistics.