Direct Belief - An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief (Hardcover, New)

Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice's theory of conversational implicature to provide a detailed pragmatic account of substitution failure in belief ascriptions and goes on to defend this view against objections, including those based on an unwarranted "Inner Speech" Picture of Thought. The work serves as a case study in pragmatic explanation, dealing also with methodological issues about context-sensitivity in language and the relation between semantics and pragmatics.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]
Release date:	April 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Jonathan Berg
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	167
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-61451-090-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Pragmatics
LSN:	1-61451-090-3
Barcode:	9781614510901

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