How many meanings does 'woman' have?

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作者
Richard, Mark [1 ]
机构
[1] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
来源
PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY | 2024年 / 74卷 / 04期
关键词
gender kinds; gender terms; interpretive common ground; Stanley Cavell; usage grammar; meaning and reference;
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10.1093/pq/pqae097
中图分类号
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
Talia Mae Bettcher argues that gender terms like 'woman' have multiple meanings, as different speakers use these terms to pick out different classes-some use 'woman' to pick out (roughly) the class of those assigned female at birth; some use it to pick out a class including both that class and trans women. Bettcher is correct, I argue: it is undeniable that 'woman' has quite different referents in different speakers' mouths; there is furthermore a kind of conventional meaning which varies across speakers associated with gender terms, one which tracks and varies with these different referential practices.
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页码:1296 / 1310
页数:15
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