Description: This book is an exploration of how knowledge about the reliability of information sources manifests itself in linguistic phenomena and use. It focuses on cooperation in language use and on how considerations of reliability influence what is done with the information acquired through language. Eric McCready provides a detailed account of the phenomena of hedging and evidentiality and analyses them using tools from game theory, dynamic semantics, and formal epistemology. Hedging is argued to be a mechanism used by speakers to protect their reputations for cooperativity from damage inflicted by infelicitous discourse moves. The pragmatics of evidential use is also discussed in terms of the histories of interaction that influence reputation: the author argues that past experience with the evidence source indexed by the evidential determines how the process of adding information will proceed. The book makes many new connections between seemingly disparate aspects of linguistic meaning and practice. It will be of interest to specialists in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language, as well as those in the fields of philosophy and cognitive science with an interest in language and epistemology.
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EAN: 9780198702849
UPC: 9780198702849
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Book Title: Reliability in Pragmatics (Oxford Studies in Seman
Item Length: 24.3 cm
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Reliability in Pragmatics
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 245 mm
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Study Guide
Item Weight: 530 g
Subject Area: Developmental Psychology, Data Analysis
Author: E. Mccready
Item Width: 172 mm
Format: Paperback
