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Lying and Insincerity.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (259 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780192560346
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lying and InsincerityDDC classification:
  • 410.1
LOC classification:
  • P121 .S765 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Lying and Insincerity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 0.1. Sincere and Insincere Speech -- 0.2. Insincerity and Deception -- 0.3. Assertion andWhat is Said -- 0.4. Lying and Misleading -- 0.5. Indifferent Speech -- 0.6. Opacity and Shallowness -- 0.7. Communicating Attitudes -- PART I: Language -- 1: Lying, Deception, and Deceit -- 1.1. The Augustinian Definition of Lying -- 1.2. Are Bald-Faced Lies Lies? -- 1.3. EightWays of Deceiving Someone Else -- 1.4. Intending to Deceive -- 1.5. Deception and Concealment -- 1.6. Withholding Information -- 1.7. My Definition of Lying -- 1.8. True Lies and Disbelief -- 2: Lying and Gricean Quality -- 2.1. The Gricean Category of Quality -- 2.2. Lying and the First Maxim of Quality -- 2.3. Irony and the First Maxim of Quality -- 2.4. Falsely Implicating and the Supermaxim of Quality -- 3: Common Ground -- 3.1. Two Roles for Common Ground Information -- 3.2. Belief and Acceptance -- 3.3. Bald-Faced Lies -- 3.4. Bald-Faced False Implicature -- 3.5. Asserting and Pretending -- 3.6. Official and Unofficial Common Ground -- 3.7. Lying and Official Common Ground -- 3.8. Proposing and Intending -- 3.9. Support Potential and Propriety -- 3.10. Metaphor -- 3.11. Malapropism -- 4: What is Said -- 4.1. Lying and Misleading -- 4.2. Direct and Indirect Deception -- 4.3. Inquiry and Discourse Structure -- 4.4. Committing to Misleading Answers -- 4.5. Exploiting Incompleteness -- 4.6. The Need for a Discourse-Sensitive Account -- 4.7. Saying and Asserting -- 4.8. Questions under Discussion -- 4.9. Misleading and the Big Question -- 4.10. Minimal Content -- 4.11. What is Said -- 5: The Difference between Lying and Misleading -- 5.1. The Classic Contrast -- 5.2. Defaulting to the Big Question -- 5.3. Committing to Misleading Answers -- 5.4. Lying via Incompleteness.
5.5. Misleading via Indeterminate Minimal Content -- 5.6. Incomplete Predicates -- 5.7. Incomplete Questions -- 5.8. Lincoln's Letter to Ashley -- 5.9. Misleading with Presuppositions -- 5.10. Athanasius, Nathan, and the Henchman -- 5.11. Presuppositions of Interrogativesand Imperatives -- 5.12. Implicit Questions and Prosodic Focus -- 5.13. Multiple Questions -- PART II: Attitudes -- 6: Bullshitting and Indifference Toward Truth -- 6.1. Frankfurt on Indifference Toward Truth -- 6.2. TwoWays of Caring about Truth -- 6.3. Bullshitting and Gricean Quality -- 6.4. Bullshitting and Questions under Discussion -- 6.5. Indifference, Minimal Content, and What is Said -- 6.6. Indifference and Caring about Truth -- 6.7. Evasion and Changing the Topic -- 6.8. Boosting Inquiry by Lying and Bullshitting -- 7: Bullshitting and Lying -- 7.1. Real Lying and Lying to Discredit Others -- 7.2. Frankfurt on Lying vs. Bullshitting -- 7.3. Most Lying is Not Bullshitting -- 7.4. Agnostic Bullshitting -- 8: Insincerity and the Opacity of the Self -- 8.1. Opacity and Deep vs. Shallow Insincerity -- 8.2. Searle on Expression and Insincerity -- 8.3. Assertion and Self-Deception -- 8.4. Higher-Order Beliefs and Mental Assent -- 8.5. Huckleberry Finn -- 9: Shallow Insincerity -- 9.1. Conscious Intentions -- 9.2. Thinking while Speaking -- 9.3. Speaking withoutThinking -- 9.4. Insincerity and Questions under Discussion -- 9.5. Speaking against One's Intentions -- 10: Communicating Attitudes: Beyond the Declarative Realm -- 10.1. Interrogatives, Exclamatives, Imperatives, and Beyond -- 10.2. Questions, Orders, and Opacity -- 10.3. Communicating Attitudes -- 10.4. Ironic Non-Declaratives -- 10.5. Insinuating Disclosure and Surreptitious Probing -- 10.6. Bullshitting with Non-Declaratives -- 10.7. Shallow Non-Declarative Insincerity -- 10.8. Indirect Speech Acts.
10.9. Phonetic, Phatic, and Rhetic Acts -- 10.10. Communicative Acts -- 10.11. Utterances as Communicative Acts -- 10.12. Why You Can't Lie withNon-Declaratives -- 10.13. Questions under Discussion, To-Do Lists, andWidening -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Andreas Stokke presents a comprehensive study of the linguistic phenomenon of insincere language use, revealing how lying relates to 'bullshitting' and other forms of insincerity, and exploring the kinds of attitudes that go with insincere uses of language.
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Cover -- Lying and Insincerity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 0.1. Sincere and Insincere Speech -- 0.2. Insincerity and Deception -- 0.3. Assertion andWhat is Said -- 0.4. Lying and Misleading -- 0.5. Indifferent Speech -- 0.6. Opacity and Shallowness -- 0.7. Communicating Attitudes -- PART I: Language -- 1: Lying, Deception, and Deceit -- 1.1. The Augustinian Definition of Lying -- 1.2. Are Bald-Faced Lies Lies? -- 1.3. EightWays of Deceiving Someone Else -- 1.4. Intending to Deceive -- 1.5. Deception and Concealment -- 1.6. Withholding Information -- 1.7. My Definition of Lying -- 1.8. True Lies and Disbelief -- 2: Lying and Gricean Quality -- 2.1. The Gricean Category of Quality -- 2.2. Lying and the First Maxim of Quality -- 2.3. Irony and the First Maxim of Quality -- 2.4. Falsely Implicating and the Supermaxim of Quality -- 3: Common Ground -- 3.1. Two Roles for Common Ground Information -- 3.2. Belief and Acceptance -- 3.3. Bald-Faced Lies -- 3.4. Bald-Faced False Implicature -- 3.5. Asserting and Pretending -- 3.6. Official and Unofficial Common Ground -- 3.7. Lying and Official Common Ground -- 3.8. Proposing and Intending -- 3.9. Support Potential and Propriety -- 3.10. Metaphor -- 3.11. Malapropism -- 4: What is Said -- 4.1. Lying and Misleading -- 4.2. Direct and Indirect Deception -- 4.3. Inquiry and Discourse Structure -- 4.4. Committing to Misleading Answers -- 4.5. Exploiting Incompleteness -- 4.6. The Need for a Discourse-Sensitive Account -- 4.7. Saying and Asserting -- 4.8. Questions under Discussion -- 4.9. Misleading and the Big Question -- 4.10. Minimal Content -- 4.11. What is Said -- 5: The Difference between Lying and Misleading -- 5.1. The Classic Contrast -- 5.2. Defaulting to the Big Question -- 5.3. Committing to Misleading Answers -- 5.4. Lying via Incompleteness.

5.5. Misleading via Indeterminate Minimal Content -- 5.6. Incomplete Predicates -- 5.7. Incomplete Questions -- 5.8. Lincoln's Letter to Ashley -- 5.9. Misleading with Presuppositions -- 5.10. Athanasius, Nathan, and the Henchman -- 5.11. Presuppositions of Interrogativesand Imperatives -- 5.12. Implicit Questions and Prosodic Focus -- 5.13. Multiple Questions -- PART II: Attitudes -- 6: Bullshitting and Indifference Toward Truth -- 6.1. Frankfurt on Indifference Toward Truth -- 6.2. TwoWays of Caring about Truth -- 6.3. Bullshitting and Gricean Quality -- 6.4. Bullshitting and Questions under Discussion -- 6.5. Indifference, Minimal Content, and What is Said -- 6.6. Indifference and Caring about Truth -- 6.7. Evasion and Changing the Topic -- 6.8. Boosting Inquiry by Lying and Bullshitting -- 7: Bullshitting and Lying -- 7.1. Real Lying and Lying to Discredit Others -- 7.2. Frankfurt on Lying vs. Bullshitting -- 7.3. Most Lying is Not Bullshitting -- 7.4. Agnostic Bullshitting -- 8: Insincerity and the Opacity of the Self -- 8.1. Opacity and Deep vs. Shallow Insincerity -- 8.2. Searle on Expression and Insincerity -- 8.3. Assertion and Self-Deception -- 8.4. Higher-Order Beliefs and Mental Assent -- 8.5. Huckleberry Finn -- 9: Shallow Insincerity -- 9.1. Conscious Intentions -- 9.2. Thinking while Speaking -- 9.3. Speaking withoutThinking -- 9.4. Insincerity and Questions under Discussion -- 9.5. Speaking against One's Intentions -- 10: Communicating Attitudes: Beyond the Declarative Realm -- 10.1. Interrogatives, Exclamatives, Imperatives, and Beyond -- 10.2. Questions, Orders, and Opacity -- 10.3. Communicating Attitudes -- 10.4. Ironic Non-Declaratives -- 10.5. Insinuating Disclosure and Surreptitious Probing -- 10.6. Bullshitting with Non-Declaratives -- 10.7. Shallow Non-Declarative Insincerity -- 10.8. Indirect Speech Acts.

10.9. Phonetic, Phatic, and Rhetic Acts -- 10.10. Communicative Acts -- 10.11. Utterances as Communicative Acts -- 10.12. Why You Can't Lie withNon-Declaratives -- 10.13. Questions under Discussion, To-Do Lists, andWidening -- Bibliography -- Index.

Andreas Stokke presents a comprehensive study of the linguistic phenomenon of insincere language use, revealing how lying relates to 'bullshitting' and other forms of insincerity, and exploring the kinds of attitudes that go with insincere uses of language.

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