Reliability in pragmatics
McCready, EricAuthor
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Pragmatics
Conversation analysis
Semantics
Hedge (Linguistics)
Languages & Literatures
Philology & Linguistics