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Reliability in Pragmatics (Hardcover)
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Reliability in Pragmatics (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics, 4
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This book is an exploration of how knowledge about the reliability
of information sources manifests itself in linguistic phenomena and
use. It focuses on cooperation in language use and on how
considerations of reliability influence what is done with the
information acquired through language. E. McCready provides a
detailed account of the phenomena of hedging and evidentiality and
analyses them using tools from game theory, dynamic semantics, and
formal epistemology. Hedging is argued to be a mechanism used by
speakers to protect their reputations for cooperativity from damage
inflicted by infelicitous discourse moves. The pragmatics of
evidential use is also discussed in terms of the histories of
interaction that influence reputation: the author argues that past
experience with the evidence source indexed by the evidential
determines how the process of adding information will proceed. The
book makes many new connections between seemingly disparate aspects
of linguistic meaning and practice. It will be of interest to
specialists in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language,
as well as those in the fields of philosophy and cognitive science
with an interest in language and epistemology.
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