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All Bullshit and Lies? - Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness (Hardcover)
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All Bullshit and Lies? - Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness (Hardcover)
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In a postfactual world in which claims are often held to be true
only to the extent that they confirm pre-existing or partisan
beliefs, this book asks crucial questions: how can we identify the
many forms of untruthfulness in discourse? How can we know when
their use is ethically wrong? How can we judge untruthfulness in
the messiness of situated discourse? Drawing on pragmatics,
philosophy, psychology, and law, All Bullshit and Lies? develops a
comprehensive framework for analyzing untruthful discourse in
situated context. TRUST, or Trust-related Untruthfulness in
Situated Text, sees untruthfulness as encompassing not only
deliberate manipulations of what is believed to be true (the
insincerity of withholding, misleading, and lying) but also the
distortions that arise from an irresponsible attitude towards the
truth (dogma, distortion, and bullshit). Chris Heffer discusses
times when truth is not "in play," as in jokes or fiction, as well
as instances when concealing the truth can achieve a greater good.
The TRUST framework demonstrates that untruthfulness becomes
unethical in discourse, though, when it unjustifiably breaches the
trust an interlocutor invests in the speaker. In addition to the
theoretical framework, this book provides a clear, practical
heuristic for analyzing discursive untruthfulness and applies it to
such cases of public discourse as the Brexit "battle bus," Trump's
tweet about voter fraud, Blair and Bush's claims about weapons of
mass destruction, and the multiple forms of untruthfulness
associated with the Skripal poisoning case. In All Bullshit and
Lies? Chris Heffer turns a critical eye to fundamental questions of
truthfulness and trust in our society. This timely and
interdisciplinary investigation of discourse provides readers a
deeper theoretical understanding of untruthfulness in a postfactual
world.
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