Feminist Philosophy Quarterly | |
What Am I, a Piece of Meat? Synecdochical Utterances Targeting Women | |
Amanda McMullen1  | |
[1] University of Arkansas; | |
关键词: Synecdoche; Pejorative Language; Objectification; pragmatics; perspectives; speech acts; | |
DOI : 10.5206/fpq/2021.1.10230 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
In a September 2004 interview, Donald Trump agreed with Howard Stern’s statement that his daughter Ivanka is “a piece of ass.” This utterance is a synecdochical utterance targeting women (SUTW), by which I mean that its form is such that a term for an anatomical part is predicated of, or could be used by a speaker to refer to, a woman. I propound a theory of what SUTW speakers do in undertaking an SUTW on which the SUTW speaker prompts the hearer to engage in a certain derogatory pattern of associational thinking—that is, taking a “perspective” in Elisabeth Camp’s sense—on the female subject. This perspective is one that reduces her to the bodily part in question—that is, fragments her (reduces her to a part) and biologizes her (characterizes her as mere living tissue). Essentially, the hearer thinks of the woman as a “piece of meat.”
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