Reliability in pragmatics /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ;
4. Oxford linguistics. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 291 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191772399 0191772399 |