Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Title Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface PDF eBook
Author Jörg Meibauer
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 226
Release 2014-07-28
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1614518203

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While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of genuine linguistic analysis of lying. Exploring lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book takes a contextualist stand by arguing that untruthful implicatures and presuppositions are part of the total signification of the act of lying.

Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy

Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy
Title Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy PDF eBook
Author Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 439
Release 2023-03-31
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1108499651

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Combining semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy, this is a guide on how to think about meaning like a linguist and philosopher.

From Lying to Perjury

From Lying to Perjury
Title From Lying to Perjury PDF eBook
Author Laurence R. Horn
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 419
Release 2022-06-06
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110733730

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This volume provides new insights on lying and (intentionally) misleading in and out of the courtroom, a timely topic for scholarship and society. Not all deceptive statements are lies; not every lie under oath amounts to perjury—but what are the relevant criteria? Taxonomies of falsehood based on illocutionary force, utterance context and speakers’ intentions have been debated by linguists, moral philosophers, social psychologists and cognitive scientists. Legal scholars have examined the boundary between actual perjury and garden-variety lies. The fourteen previously unpublished essays in this book apply theoretical and empirical tools to delineate the landscape of falsehood, half-truth, perjury, and verbal manipulation, including puffery, bluffing, and bullshit. The papers in this collection address conceptual and ethical aspects of lying vs. misleading and the correlation of this opposition with the Gricean pragmatic distinction between what is said and what is implicated. The questions of truth and lies addressed in this volume have long engaged the attention of scholars in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, organizational research, and the law, and researchers from all these fields will find this book of interest.

The Role of Data at the Semantics-pragmatics Interface

The Role of Data at the Semantics-pragmatics Interface
Title The Role of Data at the Semantics-pragmatics Interface PDF eBook
Author Enikő Németh T.
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 437
Release 2010
Genre Computers
ISBN 3110240262

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Mouton Series in Pragmatics (MSP) is a timely response to the growing demand for innovative and authoritative monographs and edited volumes from all angles of pragmatics. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, applications of evolutionary biology to the study of language, and empirical work within cognitive and developmental psychology and intercultural communication has directed attention to issues that warrant reexamination, as well as revision of some of the central tenets and claims of the field of pragmatics. The series welcomes proposals that reflect this endeavour and exploration within the discipline and neighboring fields such as language philosophy, communication, information science, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and cognitive science. MSP will provide a forum for authors who represent different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and intercultural paradigms, and have important and intriguing ideas and research findings to share with scholars who are interested in linguistics in general and pragmatics in particular.

Doing Pragmatics Interculturally

Doing Pragmatics Interculturally
Title Doing Pragmatics Interculturally PDF eBook
Author Rachel Giora
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 395
Release 2017-09-11
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110543931

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Intercultural Pragmatics is a large and diverse field encompassing a wide range of approaches, methods, and theories. This volume draws scholars together from a broad range of cognitive, philosophical, and sociopragmatic perspectives on language use in order to lay the path for a mutually informing and enriching dialogue across subfields and perceived barriers to doing pragmatics interculturally.

The Pragmatic Turn in Law

The Pragmatic Turn in Law
Title The Pragmatic Turn in Law PDF eBook
Author Janet Giltrow
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 384
Release 2017-06-12
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 150150472X

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In legal interpretation, where does meaning come from? Law is made from language, yet law, unlike other language-related disciplines, has not so far experienced its "pragmatic turn" towards inference and the construction of meaning. This book investigates to what extent a pragmatically based view of l linguistic and legal interpretation can lead to new theoretical views for law and, in addition, to practical consequences in legal decision-making. With its traditional emphasis on the letter of the law and the immutable stability of a text as legal foundation, law has been slow to take the pragmatic perspective: namely, the language-user 's experience and activity in making meaning. More accustomed to literal than to pragmatic notions of meaning, that is, in the text rather than constructed by speakers and hearers the disciplines of law may be culturally resistant to the pragmatic turn. By bringing together the different but complementary perspectives of pragmaticians and lawyers, this book addresses the issue of to what extent legal meaning can be productively analysed as deriving from resources beyond the text, beyond the letter of the law. This collection re-visits the feasibility of the notion of literal meaning for legal interpretation and, at the same time, the feasibility of pragmatic meaning for law. Can explications of pragmatic meaning support court actions in the same way concepts of literal meaning have traditionally supported statutory interpretations and court judgements? What are the consequences of a user-based view of language for the law, in both its practices of interpretation and its definition of itself as a field? Readers will find in this collection means of approaching such questions, and promising routes for inquiry into the genre- and field-specific characteristics of inference in law. In many respects, the problem of literal vs. pragmatic meaning confined to the text vs. reaching beyond it will appear to parallel the dichotomy in law between textualism and intentionalism. There are indeed illuminating connections between the pair of linguistic terms and the more publicly controversial legal ones. But the parallel is not exact, and the linguistic dichotomy is in any case anterior to the legal one. Even as linguistic-pragmatic investigation may serve legal domains, the legal questions themselves point back to central conditions of all linguistic meaning.

The Oxford Handbook of Lying

The Oxford Handbook of Lying
Title The Oxford Handbook of Lying PDF eBook
Author Jörg Meibauer
Publisher Oxford Handbooks
Pages 689
Release 2019
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0198736576

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This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, from the combined perspectives of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It will be an essential reference for students and researchers in these fields and will contribute to establishing the vibrant new field of interdisciplinary lying research.