The True and the False The Domain of the Pragmatic
| Author/creator | Travis, Charles, 1943- Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company [Distributor] |
| Description | vi, 165 p. 23.000 x 015.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Pragmatics and Beyond Ser. Vol. II: 2 |
| Summary | Annotation 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9789027225122 |
| ISBN | 9027225125 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9789027225122 |
| Stock number | 00323570 |
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