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Overview

In a postfactual world in which claims are often held to be true only to the extent that they confirm pre-existing or partisan beliefs, this book asks crucial questions: how can we identify the many forms of untruthfulness in discourse? How can we know when their use is ethically wrong? How can we judge untruthfulness in the messiness of situated discourse? Drawing on pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and law, All Bullshit and Lies? develops a comprehensive framework for analyzing untruthful discourse in situated context. TRUST, or Trust-related Untruthfulness in Situated Text, sees untruthfulness as encompassing not only deliberate manipulations of what is believed to be true (the insincerity of withholding, misleading, and lying) but also the distortions that arise from an irresponsible attitude towards the truth (dogma, distortion, and bullshit). Chris Heffer discusses times when truth is not

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Author:   Chris Heffer (Reader in Linguistics in the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Reader in Linguistics in the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Cardiff University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.642kg
ISBN:  

9780190923280

ISBN 10:   0190923288
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   17 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface: On Epistemic Partisanship and Trust INTRODUCTION PART 1: THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS 1 Trust, Co-operation and Insincerity 2 Bullshit, Inquiry and Irresponsibility PART 2: THE TRUST FRAMEWORK 3 Claims of and Evidence for Untruthfulness 4 Justified Untruthfulness 5 Insincere Discourse Strategies 6 Epistemically Irresponsible Discourse 7 Culpability and Breach of Trust PART 3: CASE STUDIES 8 Discourse and Democracy: The TRUST Heuristic and Sample Analyses 9 Poisoning and Partisanship: An Analysis of the Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack CONCLUSION References.

Reviews

Going beyond critique, All Bullshit and Lies? develops important, interdisciplinary insights on 'untruthfulness' and 'trust' that also throw light on everyday experiences and contemporary media. -Alan Durant, Professor of Communication, Middlesex University School of Law, London In this path-breaking volume, combining analyses of discursive strategies and pathologies with philosophical reflections on responsibility, Chris Heffer shines a light onto the heterogeneous nature of untruthfulness. The result is a compelling exploration of the space located between simple lies and unadulterated truths-a space occupied by bullshit, claptrap, and other forms of insincere or irresponsible speech. -Alessandra Tanesini, author of Philosophy of Language A-Z

Author Information

Chris Heffer is Reader in Linguistics in the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is the author of The Language of Jury Trial (2005) and editor of Legal-Lay Communication: Textual Travels in the Law (OUP 2013).

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