Lying and insincerity / Andreas Stokke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stokke, Andreas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Physical Description:

xii, 246 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Lying & insincerity

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Andreas Stokke presents a comprehensive study of the linguistic phenomenon of insincere language use, revealing how lying relates to 'bullshitting' and other forms of insincerity, and exploring the kinds of attitudes that go with insincere uses of language.

Contents:

1 Lying, Deception, and Deceit p. 17

1.1 The Augustinian Definition of Lying p. 17

1.2 Are Bald-Faced Lies Lies? p. 19

1.3 Eight Ways of Deceiving Someone Else p. 21

1.4 Intending to Deceive p. 24

1.5 Deception and Concealment p. 26

1.6 Withholding Information p. 29

1.7 My Definition of Lying p. 30

1.8 True Lies and Disbelief p. 32

2 Lying and Gricean Quality p. 37

2.1 The Gricean Category of Quality p. 37

2.2 Lying and the First Maxim of Quality p. 38

2.3 Irony and the First Maxim of Quality p. 41

2.4 Falsely Implicating and the Supermaxim of Quality p. 44

3 Common Ground p. 47

3.1 Two Roles for Common Ground Information p. 48

3.2 Belief and Acceptance p. 50

3.3 Bald-Faced Lies p. 52

3.4 Bald-Faced False Implicature p. 55

3.5 Asserting and Pretending p. 56

3.6 Official and Unofficial Common Ground p. 58

3.7 Lying and Official Common Ground p. 61

3.8 Proposing and Intending p. 62

3.9 Support Potential and Propriety p. 64

3.10 Metaphor p. 69

3.11 Malapropism p. 72

4 What is Said p. 75

4.1 Lying and Misleading p. 75

4.2 Direct and Indirect Deception p. 77

4.3 Inquiry and Discourse Structure p. 80

4.4 Committing to Misleading Answers p. 81

4.5 Exploiting Incompleteness p. 86

4.6 The Need for a Discourse-Sensitive Account p. 87

4.7 Saying and Asserting p. 89

4.8 Questions under Discussion p. 90

4.9 Misleading and the Big Question p. 94

4.10 Minimal Content p. 96

4.11 What is Said p. 99

5 The Difference between Lying and Misleading p. 103

5.1 The Classic Contrast p. 103

5.2 Defaulting to the Big Question p. 104

5.3 Committing to Misleading Answers p. 105

5.4 Lying via Incompleteness p. 106

5.5 Misleading via Indeterminate Minimal Content p. 109

5.6 Incomplete Predicates p. 111

5.7 Incomplete Questions p. 113

5.8 Lincoln's Letter to Ashley p. 114

5.9 Misleading with Presuppositions p. 117

5.10 Athanasius, Nathan, and the Henchman p. 118

5.11 Presuppositions of Interrogatives and Imperatives p. 123

5.12 Implicit Questions and Prosodic Focus p. 124

5.13 Multiple Questions p. 128

Part II Attitudes

6 Bullshitting and Indifference Toward Truth p. 137

6.1 Frankfurt on Indifference Toward Truth p. 137

6.2 Two Ways of Caring about Truth p. 140

6.3 Bullshitting and Gricean Quality p. 142

6.4 Bullshitting and Questions under Discussion p. 146

6.5 Indifference, Minimal Content, and What is Said p. 150

6.6 Indifference and Caring about Truth p. 152

6.7 Evasion and Changing the Topic p. 157

6.8 Boosting Inquiry by Lying and Bullshitting p. 159

7 Bullshitting and Lying p. 162

7.1 Real Lying and Lying to Discredit Others p. 163

7.2 Frankfurt on Lying vs. Bullshitting p. 164

7.3 Most Lying is Not Bullshitting p. 166

7.4 Agnostic Bullshitting p. 169

8 Insincerity and the Opacity of the Self p. 171

8.1 Opacity and Deep vs. Shallow Insincerity p. 171

5.1 Searle on Expression and Insincerity p. 173

8.1 Assertion and Self-Deception p. 175

8.2 Higher-Order Beliefs and Mental Assent p. 177

8.3 Huckleberry Finn p. 179

9 Shallow Insincerity p. 181

9.1 Conscious Intentions p. 181

9.2 Thinking while Speaking p. 184

9.3 Speaking without Thinking p. 187

9.4 Insincerity and Questions under Discussion p. 190

9.5 Speaking against One's Intentions p. 196

10 Communicating Attitudes: Beyond the Declarative Realm p. 199

10.1 Interrogatives, Exclamatives, Imperatives, and Beyond p. 200

10.2 Questions, Orders, and Opacity p. 203

10.3 Communicating Attitudes p. 206

10.4 Ironic Non-Declaratives p. 210

10.5 Insinuating Disclosure and Surreptitious Probing p. 212

10.6 Bullshitting with Non-Declaratives p. 213

10.7 Shallow Non-Declarative Insincerity p. 214

10.8 Indirect Speech Acts p. 216

10.9 Phonetic, Phatic, and Rhetic Acts p. 220

10.10 Communicative Acts p. 221

10.11 Utterances as Communicative Acts p. 223

10.12 Why You Can't Lie with Non-Declaratives p. 225

10.13 Questions under Discussion, To-Do Lists, and Widening p. 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

019882596X

9780198825968

OCLC:

1017576948