Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:43:09 -0400 From: RChametzky-AT-wkap.com (Robert Chametzky) Subject: BHA: truth & irony Hello: Having read through the archived threads on 'truth' and on 'irony', I have some references to suggest: "Theories of truth" by Richard Kirkham (MIT Press 1992, paperback 1995). Gets you through disquotation, deflation, Tarski, etc etc etc. 'Irony and the use-mention distinction' by D.Sperber & D.Wilson, in "Radical Pragmatics", P.Cole, ed., (Academic Press 1981) pp. 295-318. "Relevance" by D.Sperber & D.Wilson 2nd ed. (Blackwell 1995). In this they take back some of what they put forward in the earlier, pre Relevance Theory, approach to irony. Both are worth reading for anyone who has found the traditional accounts of irony (and other figurative uses of language) less than compelling (viz., anyone who has looked). Relevance Theory is clearly the leading research program in linguistic pragmatics currently. More general introductions to this latter area: "Pragmatics and natural language understanding" by Georgia Green 2nd. ed. (Erlbaum 1996). "Pragmatics" by Stephen Levinson (Cambridge 1983). And, for those who might want to get more technical and detailed about stuff like 'non natural meaning', 'speaker meaning', 'utterance meaning', and implicature', the best place to start is 'Paul Grice and the philosophy of language' by Stephen Neale in "Linguistics & Philosophy" v.15 #5 1992. Sei Gesund. Rob Chametzky --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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