Research
For a full list of publications, see my CV. My recent work falls into two main areas: offensive and ideological speech (leaning towards philosophy); perspective and expressivity (leaning towards linguistics).
Offensive and ideological speech
Hess, L. (2022). Inferentialist Semantics for Lexicalized Social Meanings, Synthese, 200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03817-5 [open access]
Hess, L. (2021). Slurs: Semantic and Pragmatic Theories of Meaning, In P. Stalmaszczyk (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press. pre-print
Hess, L. (2021). Slurs and Expressive Commitments, Acta Analytica, 36, 263-290. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-020-00445-x [open access]
Hess, L. (2020). Practices of Slur Use, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Special Issue on Slurs, ed. B. Cepollaro and D. Zeman, 97 (1), 86-105. https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-09701006 pre-print
Perspective and expressivity
Hess, L. and C. Bary (2019). Narrator Language and Character Language in Thucydides: a Quantitative Study of Narrative Perspective, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz026 [open access]
Hess, L. (2019). Expressive Meanings and Expressive Commitments – a Case of Meaning as Use, In P. Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Philosophical Insights Into Pragmatics, De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110628937 pre-print
Hess, L. (2018). Perspectival Expressives, Journal of Pragmatics, 129, 13-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.02.007 [open access]
Bary, C., Hess, L., Thijs, K., Berck, P. and I. Hendrickx (2017). Annotating Speech, Attitude and Perception Reports, Proceedings of the 11th Linguistic Annotation Workshop. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-0806 [open access]
Other publications
"The Meaning of Normativity of Meaning” in: Araszkiewicz et al. (eds.), Problems of Normativity, Rules, and Rule-Following, Springer, 2015, 57-66.
“Function of Polemic in Polybius, books I-V”, Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History, 8, 2013, 87-112.
“Superessentialism and Necessitarianism. The Cases of Spinoza and Lewis”, Polish Journal of Philosophy, 5, 2011, 79-95.