Charles Travis

True and the False (eBook, PDF)

The Domain of the Pragmatic

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Produktbeschreibung

Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a proper and fundamental task for pragmatics. It is also common for treatments, or definitions of truth to be confused with substantive theories about truth bearers, with a variety of unfortunate results. This monograph suggests a way of separating these tasks, and shows how many problems are thus avoided. Some emphasis is placed on the generally universal - i.e., nonlanguage-specific - character of pragmatic topics, and of truth. These issues occasion a discussion of semantic paradoxes, and of several relativities in the notion of truth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1981
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789027280831
• Artikelnr.: 42827802