Well, we're not, obviously. But we can use language to interrogate language, just as we can subvert patriarchal structures to interrogate patriarchy. We can, metaphorically speaking, make the blonde in the alley a vampire Slayer.

We've had four thousand years of history without a common set of definitions. Language doesn't need to be stable in order to work.

I'm not sure you mean by pragmatist what I would mean by pragmatist, To me, a pragmatist simply views language as a tool which is sometimes useful, sometimes not, and leaves questions of ultimate reality and being for someone else while working towards a political goal.