Jacques Moeschler

Language and Truth (eBook, ePUB)

What Makes Communication Reliable in a Post-Truth World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Language and Truth develops the theoretical framework of language, truth, and communication. This is vital reading for scholars, researchers and students

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040022061
• Artikelnr.: 70305183

Autorenporträt

Jacques Moeschler is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva where he specializes in semantics and pragmatics. He is one of the co-authors, with Sandrine Zufferey and Anne Reboul, of Implicatures (2019) and the author of Non-Lexical Pragmatics (2019) and Why Language? (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgment
Introduction
Part 1: Language, truth, and meaning
Chapter 1: What is language?
Chapter 2: What is truth?
Chapter 3: Truth-condition and non-truth-conditional meaning
Part 2: Discourse, propagation of information, and complexity of meaning
Chapter 4: Truth and political discourses
Chapter 5: Truth and information propagation
Chapter 6: A pragmatic explanation to meaning complexity
Chapter 7: Truth, expertise, and dissemination of science
General conclusion
Glossary
Index

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Foreword

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Part 1: Language, truth, and meaning

Chapter 1: What is language?

Chapter 2: What is truth?

Chapter 3: Truth-condition and non-truth-conditional meaning

Part 2: Discourse, propagation of information, and complexity of meaning

Chapter 4: Truth and political discourses

Chapter 5: Truth and information propagation

Chapter 6: A pragmatic explanation to meaning complexity

Chapter 7: Truth, expertise, and dissemination of science

General conclusion

Glossary

Index