Linguistic Justice

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Grads enroll in 281C. What do slurs mean, and how do they cause harm? How is language gendered, and how gendered should it be? Do governments owe speakers of minority languages special consideration? How about speakers of different dialects? This course will survey recent philosophical work on questions like these, sometimes with a broad eye towards language as a social practice, sometimes with a focus on the mechanics of a particular piece of language.