Truth in political discourse is important as we deal with complex global issues, such as the COVID-19 virus, possible war with Iran, and the global warming crisis. Navigating between truths and ...

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Mar., 1993), pp. 179-196 (18 pages) Ethicists have long observed that unethical communication may result from texts that contain no overt falsehoods but are ...

On May 29, in a rare public statement, Special Counsel Robert Mueller made a number of claims, that were interpreted very differently by the different political camps. And the philosophy and ...

Conversational implicatures are easy to grasp for the most part. But it is another matter to give a rational reconstruction of how they are grasped. We argue that Grice's attempt to do this fails. We ...

Jacopo Romoli receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Lyn Tieu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, ...

Pragmatics, the study of language in context, extends beyond the literal meanings of words to include the subtle inferences that speakers and listeners routinely make. A central phenomenon in this ...