The true and the false : the domain of the pragmatic
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The true and the false : the domain of the pragmatic
（Pragmatics & beyond : an interdisciplinary series of language studies, II:2）
Benjamins, 1981
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Bibliography: p. [163]-164
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a proper and fundamental task for pragmatics. It is also common for treatments, or definitions of truth to be confused with substantive theories about truth bearers, with a variety of unfortunate results. This monograph suggests a way of separating these tasks, and shows how many problems are thus avoided. Some emphasis is placed on the generally universal - i.e., nonlanguage-specific - character of pragmatic topics, and of truth. These issues occasion a discussion of semantic paradoxes, and of several relativities in the notion of truth.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. Part 1: The Border with Semantics
- 3. Part 2: A Definition of Truth
- 4. Part 3: Some Objections
- 5. Part 4: The Relativity of Truth
- 6. Footnotes
- 7. References
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