Leopold Hess, PhD

I’m a philosopher and a linguist (a little bit). My main research area is in philosophy of language, especially its interfaces with linguistics on the one hand, and social philosophy on the other. Recently, I have been working on expressive, offensive and bigoted language (slurs and epithets). I also do some work in theoretical and empirical (corpus) linguistics and in classical philology. My research in these fields is centered around the concept of perspective-taking in language, especially in narratives.

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