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Assertion - the act of presenting what we say as true-is at the centre of human social life. Yet what might seem a relatively simple phenomenon has proved difficult to define or characterise successfully. Is assertion just another speech act, on a par with promising, ordering and the like, or is it more fundamental? How is assertion related to belief? Does the declarative mood have a special role to play in the correct analysis of assertion, or can assertion be characterised independently of linguistic form? What is the relationship between what a speaker asserts and her main point? All these questions are addressed in this book as the author develops a novel account of the pragmatic ...

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Assertion - the act of presenting what we say as true-is at the centre of human social life. Yet what might seem a relatively simple phenomenon has proved difficult to define or characterise successfully. Is assertion just another speech act, on a par with promising, ordering and the like, or is it more fundamental? How is assertion related to belief? Does the declarative mood have a special role to play in the correct analysis of assertion, or can assertion be characterised independently of linguistic form? What is the relationship between what a speaker asserts and her main point? All these questions are addressed in this book as the author develops a novel account of the pragmatic processes involved in assertion and the role of the declarative mood in those processes. In doing so, he synthesises a range of perspectives on assertion, drawing on the work of philosophers, linguists and cognitive scientists.

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MARK JARY is Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University, London, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables ix

Acknowledgements x

1 Introduction 1

2 Assertion in Speech-act Theory 6

2.1 Introduction 6

2.2 Two types of speech-act theorist 6

2.3 Speech-act fundamentalists and assertion 16

2.4 Conclusion 30

3 Assertion, Belief and Knowledge 32

3.1 Introduction 32

3.2 Assertion and belief: what is the correct order of explanation? 33

3.3 Assertion and belief attribution 38

3.4 Assertion and knowledge 46

3.5 Conclusion 50

4 A Sign of Assertion 52

4.1 Introduction 52

4.2 Frege's assertion sign 53

4.3 Assertion: illocution and inference 56

4.4 A natural-language assertion sign? 59

4.5 Conclusion 82

5 Assertion and Common Ground 84

5.1 Introduction 84

5.2 Sense, force and representation in Stalnaker's account 85

5.3 Assertion and presupposition 92

5.4 Comparison with Relevance Theory 99

5.5 Conclusion 103

6 Assertion and Mood 105

6.1 Introduction 105

6.2 Mood in formal semantics 105

6.3 Speech-act approaches to mood 120

6.4 Conclusion 128

7 Assertion and Main Point 129

7.1 Introduction 129

7.2 Non-asserted main point 130

7.3 Assertion, presupposition and conventional implicature 134

7.4 Ordered entailments 138

7.5 Conclusion 148

8 Assertion and Relevance 150

8.1 Introduction 150

8.2 Relevance in a context vs. relevance to an individual 151

8.3 Context types 152

8.4 Mood and force 155

8.5 Assertion and main point 173

8.6 Relevance maximising vs. relevance optimising 177

8.7 Comparison with other frameworks 192

8.8 Conclusion 194

9 Conclusion 196

Notes 199

References 211

Index 219

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