Meaning of Nonperson | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not a real person; a subhuman.
2. Something other than a person; an object.

Equivalents

Examples

“As all lives must end, do you prefer to die as a nonperson, forgotten in a nursing home and totally stripped of dignity and independence?”

“Arguably, what is so hateful about a hate crime is that it is an attempt by some individual or group to treat a Person as a Nonperson.”

“How does hate work? [...] One answer is that the poor person (or the Jew, or the Asian, or the Native American, or whoever) becomes, intellectually, linguistically, and emotionally, a "lessperson," and then a nonperson.”

“Taken together, all the results suggested that discrimination of person from nonperson slides was not controlled by an obvious single stimulus feature.”

“No nonperson is psychologically indistinguishable from you.”

“For example, Benveniste [...] discusses the connection of first- and second-person pronouns with the speech situation, and even goes as far as to claim that the third person is a nonperson, since the referents of third-person pronouns are not speech-act participants.”

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