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Publication details [#52727]

McGowan, Kate. 2009. On Pragmatics, Exercitive Speech Acts and Pornography. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 5 (1) : 133–155.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | disadvantage | gender | pragmatics | speech act theory

Place, Publisher

Versita

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LPP/html

Annotation

This paper explores how speech act theory is applicable to some arguments on the free speech status of pornography. It especially considers various speech act accounts of MacKinnon's assertion that pornography disadvantages women.