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Language and Truth

What Makes Communication Reliable in a Post-Truth World

Jacques Moeschler

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English
Routledge
29 May 2024
The nature of truth is a current preoccupation both in political and social debates. The emergence and consequences of fake news and misinformation are at the core of what some call a post-truth world.

Divided into two parts, Language and Truth develops the theoretical framework of language, truth, and communication. The book illustrates the way in which fake news is adhered to or rejected using case studies taken from political discourse such as the recent use of the word’s “genocide” and “denazification” by Vladimir Putin. It explores sources of information such as gossip and the everyday as well as exceptional uses of language such as humour.

This is vital reading for scholars, researchers, and students of pragmatics, semantics, philosophy of language, cognitive psychology, sociolinguistics, language and communication, and language and politics within linguistics, psychology, and communication studies.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   360g
ISBN:   9781032399270
ISBN 10:   1032399279
Pages:   178
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Foreword Acknowledgment Introduction Part 1: Language, truth, and meaning Chapter 1: What is language? Chapter 2: What is truth? Chapter 3: Truth-condition and non-truth-conditional meaning Part 2: Discourse, propagation of information, and complexity of meaning Chapter 4: Truth and political discourses Chapter 5: Truth and information propagation Chapter 6: A pragmatic explanation to meaning complexity Chapter 7: Truth, expertise, and dissemination of science General conclusion Glossary Index

Jacques Moeschler is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva where he specializes in semantics and pragmatics. He is one of the co-authors, with Sandrine Zufferey and Anne Reboul, of Implicatures (2019) and the author of Non-Lexical Pragmatics (2019) and Why Language? (2021).

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