Lying and Insincerity, Hardcover/Andreas Stokke

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Description Andreas Stokke presents a comprehensive study of lying and insincere language use. He investigates how lying relates to other forms of insincerity and explores the kinds of attitudes that go with insincere uses of language. Part I develops an account of insincerity as a linguistic phenomenon. Stokke provides a detailed theory of the distinction between lying and speaking insincerely, and accounts for the relationship between lying and deceiving. A novel framework of assertion underpins the analysis of various kinds of insincere speech, including false implicature and forms of misleading with presuppositions, prosodic focus, and semantic incompleteness. Part II sets out the relationship between what is communicated and the speaker's attitudes. Stokke develops the view of insincerity as a shallow phenomenon that is dependent on conscious attitudes rather than deeper motivations. The various of ways of speaking while being indifferent toward what one communicates are covered, and the phenomenon of 'bullshitting' is distinguished from lying and other forms of insincerity. Finally, an account of insincere uses of interrogative, imperative, and exclamative utterances is also given. About the Author Andreas Stokke pursued his postgraduate studies in philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where he received an MLitt degree in 2006 and a Ph. D. in 2010. After completing his doctoral studies, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo and at the University of Lisbon. In 2013, he took up a position as University Lecturer at Umea University. In 2016, he was awarded a Pro Futura Scientia Fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, nominated by the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University, where he is now also a senior lecturer. Dr. Stokke's research is mainly in the fields of philosophy of language and epistemology, but he has also worked on ethics and philosophy of action.