Language and Truth - What Makes Communication Reliable in a Post-Truth World

Language and Truth develops the theoretical framework of language, truth, and communication. This is vital reading for scholars, researchers and students

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

Language and Truth develops the theoretical framework of language, truth, and communication. This is vital reading for scholars, researchers and students

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Moeschler, Moeschler Jacques
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032410135
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3241013-5
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Philosophy of Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Sociolinguistics, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc