31.2452, Books: All Bullshit and Lies?: Heffer

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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:34:50
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: All Bullshit and Lies?: Heffer

 


Title: All Bullshit and Lies? 
Subtitle: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/all-bullshit-and-lies-9780190923297?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Chris Heffer

Paperback: ISBN:  9780190923297 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 29.95


Abstract:

Drawing on pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and law, "All Bullshit and
Lies?" develops a comprehensive framework for analyzing untruthful discourse
in situated context. TRUST, or Trust-related Untruthfulness in Situated Text,
sees untruthfulness as encompassing not only deliberate manipulations of what
is believed to be true (the insincerity of withholding, misleading, and lying)
but also the distortions that arise from an irresponsible attitude towards the
truth (dogma, distortion, and bullshit). Chris Heffer discusses times when
truth is not. 

In "All Bullshit and Lies?" Chris Heffer turns a critical eye to fundamental
questions of truthfulness and trust in our society. This timely and
interdisciplinary investigation of discourse provides readers a deeper
theoretical understanding of untruthfulness in a postfactual world.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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