{"product_id":"nothing-is-said-mark-jary-9780192863188","title":"Nothing Is Said: Utterance and Interpretation","description":"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, \u003cem\u003eNothing is Said\u003c\/em\u003e argues that it is a mistake to import the notion of saying into our models of basic linguistic communication. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRather 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Jary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192863185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192863188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.30d","brand":"Mark Jary","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070104760575,"sku":"9780192863188","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6e95bd41-5358-4139-8468-586379eb0240.jpg?v=1685428381","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nothing-is-said-mark-jary-9780192863188","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}