TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tsohatzidis,Savas L.
TI  - Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language: Essays on Semantic and Pragmatic Topics 
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
SN  - 9783110687507
AV  - P107 .T786 2020
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Pragmatics
KW  - Semantics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Linguistic Pragmatics
KW  - Linguistic Semantics
KW  - Philosophy of Language
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I. Matters of meaning and truth --; 1. Truth ascriptions, falsity ascriptions, and the paratactic analysis of indirect discourse --; 2. The hybrid theory of mixed quotation --; 3. Self-reference and the divorce between meaning and truth --; 4. Performativity and the “true/false fetish” --; 5. Speaking of truth-telling: The view from wh-complements --; 6. The distance between “here” and “where I am” --; 7. A problem for a logic of “because” --; 8. What “lack” needs to have: A study in the semantics of privation --; 9. A fake typicality constraint on asymmetric acceptability --; 10. Correlative and noncorrelative conjunctions in argument and nonargument positions --; Part II. Matters of meaning and force --; 11. Yes–no questions and the myth of content invariance --; 12. Deontic trouble in speech act botany --; 13. The gap between speech acts and mental states --; 14. A purported refutation of some theories of assertion --; 15. Two consequences of hinting --; 16. How to test a test for perlocutionary act names --; 17. Speaker meaning, sentence meaning, and metaphor --; 18. Voices and noises in the theory of speech acts --; 19. Searle’s derivation of promissory obligation --; 20. Searle’s Making the Social World --; 21. A paradox of cooperation in the theory of implicatures --; 22. An inferential impasse in the theory of implicatures --; Part III. Knowledge matters --; 23. How to forget that “know” is factive --; 24. Three problems for the knowledge rule of assertion --; 25. Grammars as objects of knowledge: The availability of dispositionalism --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This book collects twenty-five of the author's essays, each of which addresses a descriptive or a foundational issue that arises at the interface between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, on the one hand, and the philosophy of language, on the other. Arranged into three interconnected parts (I. Matters of Meaning and Truth; II. Matters of Meaning and Force; III. Knowledge Matters), the essays suggest that some key topics in the above-mentioned fields have often been approached in ways that considerably underestimate their empirical or conceptual complexity, and attempt to delineate perspectives from which, and conditions under which, an improved understanding of those topics could be sought. The book will be of interest to linguists working in semantics and pragmatics, and to philosophers working in the philosophy of language and in epistemology
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110687538
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110687538
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