No detailed description available for "Pretending to Communicate". Summary of the Contens:
I. Community and Communication, Meaning and Understanding
- Anti-Individualism, Responsibility, Deference, and Dissembling
- Meaning and Indexicality in Communication
- How Do We Know that What We Mean is Undrestodd? Hypothesis and Warranty of Uptake in Conversation
II. Types of Pretending to Communicate
- Pretending to Refer
- Pretending to Be Objective
- How Scientists Argue. Two Case Studies
- On the Political Message: Pretending to Communicate
- Pedagogy and Paradox: Teaching Interpretation in a Religious Community
III. Pretension to Communicate in Fiction and in Conversation
- No Conversation without Misrepresantation
- Edifiying Archie or: How to Fool the reader
- Pragmatica and Rhetorics: a Collaborative Approach to Conversation
- Con/versation
- National Etranger: Two Jammed Shifters
IV. Ways and Forces of Pretenting to Communicate
- Indirection, Manipulation and Seduction in Discourse
- Unrepeatable Sentences: Contextual Influence on Speech and Thought Presentation
- On Non-Serious Talk: Some Cross-Cultural Remarks on the (Un)importance of (not) Being Earnest
- Lying as Pretenting to Give Information
- The Description of Lies in Speech Acts Theory
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