Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xii, 246 pages ; 23 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index. |
Summary |
Andreas Stokke presents a comprehensive study of the linguistic phenomenon of insincere language use, revealing how lying relates to 'bullshitting' and other forms of insincerity, and exploring the kinds of attitudes that go with insincere uses of language. Part I develops an account of insincerity as a linguistic phenomenon. Stokke provides a detailed theory of the distinction between lying and speaking insincerely, and accounts for the relationship between lying and deceiving. A novel framework of assertion underpins the analysis of various kinds of insincere speech, including false implicature and forms of misleading with presuppositions, prosodic focus, and semantic incompleteness. Part II sets out the relationship between what is communicated and the speaker's attitudes. Stokke develops the view of insincerity as a shallow phenomenon that is dependent on conscious attitudes rather than deeper motivations. The various of ways of speaking while being indifferent toward what one communicates are covered, and the phenomenon of 'bullshitting' is distinguished from lying and other forms of insincerity. Finally, an account of insincere uses of interrogative, imperative, and exclamative utterances is also given. -- Publisher's description. |
Contents |
Introduction : Sincere and insincere speech ; Insincerity and deception ; Assertion and what is said ; Lying and misleading ; Indifferent speech ; Opacity and shallowness ; Communicating attitudes -- Part I. Language : Lying, deception, and deceit : The Augustinian definition of lying ; Are bald-faced lies lies? ; Eight ways of deceiving someone else ; Intending to deceive ; Deception and concealment ; Withholding information ; My definition of lying ; True lies and disbelief -- Lying and Gricean quality : The Gricean category of quality ; Lying and the first maxim of quality ; Irony and the first maxim of quality ; Falsely implicating the supermaxim of quality -- Common ground : Two roles for common ground information ; Belief and acceptance ; Bald-faced lies ; Bald-faced false implicature ; Asserting and pretending ; Official and unofficial common ground ; Lying and official common ground ; Proposing and intending ; Support potential and propriety ; Metaphor ; Malapropism -- What is said : Lying and misleading ; Direct and indirect deception ; Inquiry and discourse structure ; Committing to misleading answers ; Exploiting incompleteness ; The need for a discourse-sensitive account ; Saying and asserting ; Questions under discussion ; Misleading and the big question ; Minimal content ; What is said -- Difference between lying and misleading : The classic contrast ; Defaulting to the big question ; Committing to misleading answers ; Lying via incompleteness ; Misleading via indeterminate minimal content ; Incomplete predicates ; Incomplete questions ; Lincoln's letter to Ashley ; Misleading with presuppositions ; Athanasius, Nathan, and the henchman ; Implicit questions and prosodic focus ; Multiple questions -- Part II. Attitudes : Bullshitting and indifference toward truth : Frankfurt on indifference toward truth ; Two ways of caring about truth ; Bullshitting and Gricean quality ; Bullshitting and questions under discussion ; Indifference, minimal content, and what is said ; Indifference and caring about truth ; Evasion and changing the topic ; Boosting inquiry by lying and bullshitting -- Bullshitting and lying : Real lying and lying to discredit others ; Frankfurt on lying vs. bullshitting ; Most lying is not bullshitting ; Agnostic bullshitting -- Insincerity and the opacity of the self : Opacity and deep vs. shallow insincerity ; Searle on expression and insincerity ; Assertion and self-deception ; Higher-order beliefs and mental assent ; Huckleberry Finn -- Shallow insincerity : Conscious intentions ; Thinking while speaking ; Insincerity and questions under discussion ; Speaking against one's intentions -- Communicating attitudes: beyond the declarative realm : Interrogatives, exclamatives, imperatives, and beyond ; Questions, orders, and opacity ; Communicating attitudes ; Ironic non-declaratives ; Insinuating disclosure and surreptitious probing ; Bullshitting with non-declaratives ; Shallow non-declarative insincerity ; Indirect speech acts ; Phonetic, phatic, and rhetic acts ; Communicative acts ; Utterances as communicative acts ; Why you can't lie with non-declaratives ; Questions under discussion, to-do lists, and widening. |
Subject |
Linguistics.
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Truthfulness and falsehood.
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Linguistics. (OCoLC)fst00999202
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Truthfulness and falsehood. (OCoLC)fst01158255
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Added Title |
Lying & insincerity |
ISBN |
9780198825968 (hardcover) |
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019882596X (hardcover) |
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