How to Silence Content with Porn, Context and Loaded Questions

European Journal of Philosophy 24 (2):498-522 (2016)
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Using a combination of semantic theory and findings from conversation analysis, this paper describes a way in which questions, which incorporate presuppositions that are false, when used in a courtroom cross-examination wherein there are certain turn-taking rules, rights and restrictions, stop a rape victim from expressing the content that she wants to express in that context. This kind of silencing contrasts with other kinds of silencing that consist in the disabling of a speech act's force, rather than precluding the expression of certain contents. Content Note: there are explicit descriptions of sexual violence in this paper.

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