Language and Truth - Jacques Moeschler

Language and Truth

What Makes Communication Reliable in a Post-Truth World
Buch | Hardcover
178 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-41013-5 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Language and Truth develops the theoretical framework of language, truth, and communication. This is vital reading for scholars, researchers and students
The nature of truth is a current preoccupation both in political and social debates. The emergence and consequences of fake news and misinformation are at the core of what some call a post-truth world.

Divided into two parts, Language and Truth develops the theoretical framework of language, truth, and communication. The book illustrates the way in which fake news is adhered to or rejected using case studies taken from political discourse such as the recent use of the word’s “genocide” and “denazification” by Vladimir Putin. It explores sources of information such as gossip and the everyday as well as exceptional uses of language such as humour.

This is vital reading for scholars, researchers, and students of pragmatics, semantics, philosophy of language, cognitive psychology, sociolinguistics, language and communication, and language and politics within linguistics, psychology, and communication studies.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 4 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-41013-2 / 1032410132
ISBN-13 978-1-032-41013-5 / 9781032410135
Zustand Neuware
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