ABSTRACT

Since the middle of the last century, normative language has been much studied. In particular, the normative function performed by certain sentences and by certain speech acts has been investigated in depth. Still, the normative function performed by certain physical artifacts designed and built to regulate human behaviors has not yet been thoroughly investigated. We propose to call this specific type of artifacts with normative intent ‘deontic artifacts’. This article aims to investigate this normative phenomenon that is so widespread in our daily reality, but so often forgotten by scholars of norms and normativity.

中文翻译：

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道义神器。调查对象的规范性

摘要

自上世纪中叶以来，规范语言得到了大量研究。特别是对某些句子和某些言语行为所执行的规范功能进行了深入研究。尽管如此，尚未彻底研究为规范人类行为而设计和建造的某些物理人工制品所执行的规范功能。我们建议将这种具有规范意图的特定类型的工件称为“道义工件”。本文旨在调查这种在我们日常现实中如此普遍但又经常被规范和规范性学者遗忘的规范现象。