Lying: A Gricean Account
Austin, David John Joseph
(2015)
Lying: A Gricean Account.
Masters thesis, University of Hertfordshire.
It is widely assumed that in order to lie, a speaker must at least assert a falsehood. I offer an analysis of lying based on the Gricean notion of communicative-intention and show how lying through assertion operates. I show that certain recently developed assertion-based accounts of lying are either problematic or at least not compelling. In defending an account of lying based on communicative-intention, I show how it is possible to lie in ways which do not involve assertion and how better to accommodate certain problematic cases than competing accounts.
Item Type | Thesis (Masters) |
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Keywords | Grice; Assertion; Implicature; communicative-intention; lies |
Date Deposited | 28 May 2025 21:57 |
Last Modified | 29 May 2025 18:09 |
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