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Language and Truth

What Makes Communication Reliable in a Post-Truth World

By: Jacques Moeschler

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Language and Truth

What Makes Communication Reliable in a Post-Truth World

By: Jacques Moeschler

The nature of truth is a current preoccupation both in political and social debates. The emergence and consequences of fake news and misinformation are at the core of what some call a post-truth world. Divided into two parts, Language and Truth develops the theoretical framework of language, truth, and communication. The book illustrates the way in which fake news is adhered to or rejected using case studies taken from political discourse such as the recent use of the word’s “genocide” and “denazification” by Vladimir Putin. It explores sources of information such as gossip and the everyday as well as exceptional uses of language such as humour. This is vital reading for scholars, researchers, and students of pragmatics, semantics, philosophy of language, cognitive psychology, sociolinguistics, language and communication, and language and politics within linguistics, psychology, and communication studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040022065

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Non-Lexical Pragmatics

Time, Causality and Logical Words

By: Jacques Moeschler

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Non-Lexical Pragmatics

Time, Causality and Logical Words

By: Jacques Moeschler

This book presents both general issues in pragmatic theories and specific arguments for an inferential approach to pragmatics. At the present time, pragmatics is generally approached from the neo- and post-Gricean perspectives. These perspectives, which stem from philosophical theories of meaning, can be viewed as paradigms, that is, sets of concepts, procedures and results which structure scientific investigations. The main purpose of the book is to defend a new post-Gricean approach to the substantial lexicon and to the functional lexicon (tenses, connectives), and more specifically to explore lexical and non-lexical pragmatics. A precise approach to lexical and non-lexical pragmatic contents will be developed, with special emphasis on non-lexical temporal and causal information. A model for inferring temporal relations in discourse (the directional inferences model based on French data) is developed. This approach to temporal representations and inferences will be completed by a discussion on how causal inferences are triggered in discourse interpretation. The role of conceptual causal relations, as well as causal procedural information encoded in discourse connectives (mainly parce que ‘because’, donc ‘therefore’, et ‘and’), is empirically and theoretically supported. Pragmatic theory can be described as a very powerful interface system which gives access to lexical and functional information, and which contains rich pragmatic enrichment processes, for non-lexical information (quantifier, tenses, connectives) as well as for lexical information (event predicates). The book’s originality stems from its demonstration that pragmatic enrichment is structurally constrained, and occurs at the level of explicature.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110218496

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Implicatures

By: Sandrine Zufferey,Jacques Moeschler,Anne Reboul

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Implicatures

By: Sandrine Zufferey,Jacques Moeschler,Anne Reboul

Offers an accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures in pragmatics, and its interfaces with language and cognition.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107125650

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Why Language?

What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication

By: Jacques Moeschler

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Why Language?

What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication

By: Jacques Moeschler

There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and communication is not language, why languages vary and how they evolved. Based on the most recent works in linguistics and pragmatics, Why Language? addresses many questions that everyone has about language. Starting from false claims about language and languages, showing that language is not communication and communication is not language, the first part (Language and Communication) ends by proposing a difference between linguistic rules and communicative principles. The second part (Language, Society, Discourse) includes domains of language and language uses which are generally taken as extrinsic to language, such as language variety, discourse and non-ordinary (literary) usages. Special attention is given to figures of discourse (metaphor, metonymy, irony) and literary usages such as narration and free indirect style. The reader, either specialist or amateur in language science, will find a first and unique synthesis about what we know today about language and what we have yet to learn, sketching what could be the future of linguistics in the next decades.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110723441

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Implicatures

By: Sandrine Zufferey,Jacques Moeschler,Anne Reboul

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By: Sandrine Zufferey,Jacques Moeschler,Anne Reboul

Offers an accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures in pragmatics, and its interfaces with language and cognition.

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Pragmatic Theory, Lexical and Non-lexical Pragmatics

By: Jacques Moeschler

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Pragmatic Theory, Lexical and Non-lexical Pragmatics

By: Jacques Moeschler

This book presents both general issues in pragmatic theories and specific arguments for an inferential approach to pragmatics. At the present time, pragmatics is generally approached from the neo- and post-Gricean perspectives. These perspectives, which stem from philosophical theories of meaning, can be viewed as paradigms, that is, sets of concepts, procedures and results which structure scientific investigations. The main purpose of the book is to defend a new post-Gricean approach to the substantial lexicon and to the functional lexicon (tenses, connectives), and more specifically to explore lexical and non-lexical pragmatics. A precise approach to lexical and non-lexical pragmatic contents will be developed, with special emphasis on non-lexical temporal and causal information. A model for inferring temporal relations in discourse (the directional inferences model based on French data) is developed. This approach to temporal representations and inferences will be completed by a discussion on how causal inferences are triggered in discourse interpretation. The role of conceptual causal relations, as well as causal procedural information encoded in discourse connectives (mainlyparce que 'because', donc 'therefore', et 'and'), is empirically and theoretically supported. Pragmatic theory can be described as a very powerful interface system which gives access to lexical and functional information, and which contains rich pragmatic enrichment processes, for non-lexical information (quantifier, tenses, connectives) as well as for lexical information (event predicates). The book's originality stems from its demonstration that pragmatic enrichment is structurally constrained, and occurs at the level of explicature.

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De Gruyter Mouton

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3110218488

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Book's by Jacques Moeschler

Language and Truth

Language and Truth

Non-Lexical Pragmatics

Non-Lexical Pragmatics

Implicatures

Implicatures

Why Language?

Why Language?

Implicatures

Implicatures

Pragmatic Theory, Lexical and Non-lexical Pragmatics

Pragmatic Theory, Lexical and Non-lexical Pragmatics

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