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Authors: | Meibauer, Jörg |
Title: | On commitment to untruthful implicatures |
Online publication date: | 18-Apr-2023 |
Year of first publication: | 2023 |
Language: | english |
Abstract: | In the current debate on the lying-misleading distinction, many theorists distinguish between lying as insincere assertion and misleading through conveying an untruthful implicature. There is growing empirical evidence that average speakers count untruthful implicatures as cases of lying. What matters for them is the (degree) of commitment to an untruthful implicature. Since untruthful conversational implicatures may arise with non-assertions, and untruthful presuppositions are also judged as lying, a realistic conception of lying should aim at a definition of lying that it is able to cover these possibilities. Such a conception, which supports traditional assumptions about the semantics-pragmatics distinction, leads to a commitment-based definition of lying, as recently proposed by a number of authors. |
DDC: | 400 Sprache 400 Language |
Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Department: | FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie |
Place: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8808 |
Version: | Published version |
Publication type: | Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Document type specification: | Scientific article |
License: | CC BY |
Information on rights of use: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Journal: | Intercultural Pragmatics 20 |
Pages or article number: | 75 98 |
Publisher: | de Gruyter |
Publisher place: | Berlin |
Issue date: | 2023 |
ISSN: | 1613-365X |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1515/ip-2023-0004 |
Appears in collections: | DFG-491381577-H |
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