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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789079203321

Autore

Meibauer Jörg

Titolo

Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface / / Jörg Meibauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-61451-084-9

1-61451-820-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Mouton series in pragmatics, , 1864-6409 ; ; volume 14

Disciplina

401.43

Soggetti

Pragmatics

Semantics (Philosophy)

Mythomania

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Perspectives on lying -- 2. Approaching a linguistic concept of lying -- 3. Assertion and lying -- 4. Defining lying -- 5. Interface Problems -- 6. Lying and quotation -- 7. Relative lies -- Epilogue -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.