Oxford University has just announced the forthcoming publication of The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, edited by Ernie Lepore and Luvell Anderson.

Description of the book’s cover: A cartoon image of a half-open mouth next to several speech balloons with the names of the editors on the top right corner. Underneath the image, the title of the book on a solid black background.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Luvell Anderson and Ernie Lepore:
2. Amelioration as Course Correction, Sally Haslanger and Stephen Yablo:
3. A world where many worlds fit, Ángeles Eraña and Axel Barceló
4. Silencing and Assertion: An Account of their Conversational Dynamic, J. L. Dowell:
5. The Pragmatics of Technologically Mediated Online Speech: Don’t @ Me!, Quill R. Kukla:
6. The Truth About Slurs, Robin Jeshion
7. The Truth About Slurs, Una Stojni? and Ernie Lepore
8. On Passive Aggression, Rebecca Roache
9. On Passive Aggression, Timothy Jay
10. Speech-Act Theory in Feminist Thought, Louise Antony:
11. Pornography as Oppressive Speech, Mari Mikkola
12. Pronouns and Gender, Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini and Michael Glanzberg
13. How to Do Things with Gendered Words, E. M. Hernandez and Archie Crowley
14. Beyond Pronouns: Gender Visibility and Neutrality across Languages, Iz González Vázquez, Martina Rosola, and Anna Klieber:
15. Privacy, Critical Definition and Racial Justice, Anita L. Allen
16. Gender-neutrality and family leave policies, Jules Holroyd and Matthew J. Cull
17. In Praise of Spoken Philosophy, Esa Saarinen
18. Boxed Ears and Swiveling Fists: American Sign Language, Audism, and Power, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
19. Resistance and Reclamation: Notorious Thugs, Luvell Anderson
20. Public Protest and Silencing, José Medina
21. The Contents of Maps, Jeffrey King
22. Map Semantics and the Geography of Meaning, Gabriel Greenberg:
23. The Semantics of Iconography and Code Words, John Kulvicki
24. Visual and Linguistic Dogwhistles, Ray Drainville and Jennifer Saul
25. AI with Alien Content and Alien Metasemantics H, erman Cappelen and Josh Dever
26. Semantic Change in the Language of Technology, Daian Flórez
27. On Retweeting, Eliot Michaelson, Jessica Pepp, and Rachel Sterken
28. Ideology and Intersectionality, Matthew McKeever
29. Shakespeare’s Proper Names, Tina Chanter and Andrew Cutrofello
30. Art and Language, Noël Carroll