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In everyday talk about language, we distinguish between what someone said and what they implied, or otherwise conveyed, a distinction carried into theorising about language and communication. Nothing is Said argues that it is a mistake to import the notion of saying into our models of basic linguistic communication.

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Nothing Is Said by Mark Jary

In everyday talk about language, we distinguish between what someone said and what they implied, or otherwise conveyed. This distinction has been carried over into theorising about language and communication, resulting in much debate about how the notion of what is said should be defined. Against the underlying assumption of these disputes, Nothing is Said argues that it is a mistake to import the notion of saying into our models of basic linguistic communication. Rather than belonging to our basic linguistic competence, the notion of saying is a reflective one resulting from a higher-order metacommunicative competence that is relatively late-developing. This competence allows us to reflect simultaneously on the form and content of an utterance, and hence characterise it as an act of saying. The study shows how this notion of saying can be accounted for without assuming that identifying what is said is a necessary step in basic utterance interpretation. The idea that linguistic interpretation relies on identifying what is said is deeply ingrained. Mark Jary considers the consequences for semantic and pragmatic theory of dropping this assumption, focusing on lexical pragmatics, scalar implicature, assertion, lying, and other topics that have received significant attention in the recent literature. The claims made are supported by reference to empirical data from experimental psychology.
The book is lively and engaging, and contains lots of penetrating detailed discussions of core, significant issuesIt is an important contribution to the Semantics/Pragmatics literature. * Arthur Sullivan, Journal of Pragmatics *
The book contains lots of penetrating detailed discussions of core, significant issues. This is an important contribution to the Semantics/ Pragmatics literature. * Arthur Sullivan, Journal of Pragmatics *
Mark Jary is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Roehampton, where he taught for over 20 years. He has published widely on topics relating to speech acts, linguistic mood, theory of mind, and the interaction between these.
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ISBN 13 9780192863188
ISBN 10 0192863185
Titre Nothing Is Said
Auteur Mark Jary
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Type de reliure Hardback
Éditeur Oxford University Press
Année de publication 2022-09-27
Nombre de pages 224
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