Direct Belief

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An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief, Mouton Series in Pragmatics/MSP 13, Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] 13

ISBN: 1614510903
ISBN 13: 9781614510901
Autor: Berg, Jonathan
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Umfang: X, 157 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.04.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

Mouton Series in Pragmatics (MSP) is a timely response to the growing demand for innovative and authoritative monographs and edited volumes from all angles of pragmatics. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, applications of evolutionary biology to the study of language, and empirical work within cognitive and developmental psychology and intercultural communication has directed attention to issues that warrant reexamination, as well as revision of some of the central tenets and claims of the field of pragmatics. The series welcomes proposals that reflect this endeavour and exploration within the discipline and neighboring fields such as language philosophy, communication, information science, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and cognitive science. MSP will provide a forum for authors who represent different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and intercultural paradigms, and have important and intriguing ideas and research findings to share with scholars who are interested in linguistics in general and pragmatics in particular.

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Beschreibung

Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice's theory of conversational implicature to provide a detailed pragmatic account of substitution failure in belief ascriptions and goes on to defend this view against objections, including those based on an unwarranted "Inner Speech" Picture of Thought. The work serves as a case study in pragmatic explanation, dealing also with methodological issues about context-sensitivity in language and the relation between semantics and pragmatics.

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Berg, University of Haifa, Israel.

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