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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCready, Elin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 291 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191772399
0191772399