Reliability in Pragmatics

by Eric McCready and Elin McCready

Book Overview

This book is an exploration of how knowledge about the reliability of information sources manifests itself in linguistic phenomena and use. It focuses on cooperation in language use and on how considerations of reliability influence what is done with the information acquired through language. Elin McCready provides a detailed account of the phenomena of hedging and evidentiality and analyses them using tools from game theory, dynamic semantics, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198702841
• ISBN13: 9780198702849
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 9.6"