Reliability in Pragmatics |
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| Author:
| McCready, Elin |
| Series title: | Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-870284-9 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2015 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $68.00 |
Book Description:
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This book considers how observations about the past influence future behaviour, as expressed in language. Focusing on information gathered from speech and other evidence sources, the author offers a model of how judgements about reliability can be made, and how such judgements factor into how people treat information they acquire via those sources
This book considers how observations about the past influence future behaviour, as expressed in language. Focusing on information gathered from speech and other evidence sources, the author offers a model of how judgements about reliability can be made, and how such judgements factor into how people treat information they acquire via those sources