Reliability in Pragmatics

Oxford University Press (2014)
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This book considers how observations about the past influence future behaviour, as expressed in language. Focusing on information gathered from speech and other evidence sources, the author offers a model of how judgements about reliability can be made, and how such judgements factor into how people treat information they acquire via those sources.

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9780198702832   0198702841   0198702833

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Testimonial evidence

This chapter returns to the particular case of testimonial evidence and places the proposed account within the philosophical landscape of work on testimony. The approach is argued to be a hybrid of reductionist and anti-reductionist approaches from this perspective. Information states corr... see more

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