Animalization of language, therefore death of a man

Abstract

In the article, I try to emphasize that our way of using language affects moral decisions and attitudes. As we think as we speak and simultaneously, we act. By using chauvinistic language, first of all, we simplify our reality; secondly, we push those beings that we define in the language to the margins. I think that our language is homocentric and therefore leads us to speciesism.

Keywords

• language
• ethics
• morality
• animal rights
• animal welfare
• interest
• speciesism
• acts of speech
• performatives