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Assertion - the act of presenting what we say as true--is at the centre of human social life.
Yet what might seem a relatively simple phenomenon has proved difficult to define or characterise successfully.
Is assertion just another speech act, on a par with promising, ordering and the like, or is it more fundamental?
How is assertion related to belief? Does the declarative mood have a special role to play in the correct analysis of assertion or can assertion be characterised independently of linguistic form?
What is the relationship between what a speaker asserts and her main point?
All these questions are addressed in this book as the author develops a novel account of the pragmatic processes involved in assertion and the role of the declarative mood in those processes.
In doing so, he synthesises a range of perspectives on assertion, drawing on the work of philosophers, linguists and cognitive scientists.
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- Pages:240 pages, 3 tables, 3 figures
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:16/07/2010
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- ISBN:9780230274617
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:240 pages, 3 tables, 3 figures
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:16/07/2010
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- ISBN:9780230274617