Affiliation:
1. University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ, USA
2. Aoyama Gakuin University , Tokyo, Japan
Abstract
Abstract
In this chapter, we turn to another type of dogwhistle, the enriching dogwhistle, where the recognition of the dogwhistle alters the semantic content of the utterance that hosts it. Our aim is to propose an account of dogwhistles of this type. We propose an account on which recognition of speaker persona invites certain kinds of inferences, which result in alterations of the meaning recovered by ‘savvy’ interpreters. Doing so requires some explication of the nature of personas and ideologies, and of the ways in which the recognition of someone’s persona influences our views of the attitudes and beliefs they have. We claim that certain kinds of personas, mainly those 76associated with ideologies and political stances, ‘project’ sets of beliefs and values. Such projections enable certain kinds of invited inferences which, we claim, ground the phenomenon of enriching dogwhistles.
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford