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

  • Format: 194 pages
  • Pub. Date: 29-May-2024
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781040021996
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  • Format: 194 pages
  • Pub. Date: 29-May-2024
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781040021996
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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 source of information such as gossip and the everyday and 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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment

Foreword

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

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).
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