TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berg,Jonathan
TI  - Direct Belief: An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief 
T2  - Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] ,
SN  - 9781614510901
AV  - P99.4.P72 
U1  - 100 
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Belief and doubt
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Pragmatics
KW  - Semantics (Philosophy)
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Gricean Maxims
KW  - Philosophy of Language
KW  - Semantics and Pragmatics
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. The instability of belief ascriptions (and how not to explain it) --; Chapter 2. The pragmatics of substitutivity --; Chapter 3. Conceptions, belief, and “inner speech” --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614510826
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614510826
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614510826/original
ER  -