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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Practices of Truth
Subtitle: An ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts
Written By: Baudouin Dupret
URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.214
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 214
Description:

The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a “member phenomenon”. To document this statement, it proceeds to the investigation of instances of truth-related practices in various Arab contexts. Bearing on the constitution of actions and events, on what is factual or objective, on predictability, consequentiality, intentionality, causality, and on the many ways people orient to them, such a varied set of questions appears thoroughly moral. The praxeological respecification this book undertakes leads to important considerations regarding the question of morality in ordinary reasoning, and the categories and categorizations on which that morality is based: moral values are publicly available; morality has a modal logic; moral values and conventions have an open texture; objectivity is a practical achievement carried out by members of society; the moral order is an omnipresent, constitutive characteristic of social practice.

Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Semantics
Anthropological Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic

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Format: Electronic
ISBN-13: 9789027284655
Prices: U.S. $ 135.00
Europe EURO 90.00
 
Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9789027256171
Prices: U.K. £ 90.00
Europe EURO 95.40
U.S. $ 135.00