On Non-Serious Talk: Some Cross-Cultural Remarks on the (Un)importance of (not) Being Earnest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. I. Community and Communication, Meaning and Understanding
5. Anti-Individualism, Responsibility, Deference and Dissembling 3
6. Meaning and Indexicality in Communication 17
7. How Do We Know that What We Mean is Understood? Hypothesis and Warranty of Uptake in Conversation 33
8. II. Types of Pretending to Communicate
9. Pretending to Refer 51
10. Pretending to Be Objective 71
11. How Scientists Argue. Two Case Studies 89
12. On the Political Message: Pretending to Communicate 104
13. Pedagogy and Paradox: Teaching Interpretation in a Religious Community 124
14. III. Pretension to Communicate in Fiction and in Conversation
15. No Conversation without Misrepresentation 143
16. Edifying Archie or: How to Fool the Reader 154
17. Pragmatics and Rhetoric: A Collaborative Approach to Conversation 173
18. Con/versation 196
19. NATIONAL, ETRANGER: Two Jammed Shifters 212
20. IV. Ways and Forces of Pretending to Communicate
21. Indirection, Manipulation and Seduction in Discourse 223
22. Unrepeatable Sentences: Contextual Influence on Speech and Thought Presentation 239
23. On Non-Serious Talk: Some Cross-Cultural Remarks on the (Un)importance of (not) Being Earnest 253
24. Lying as Pretending to Give Information 276
25. The Description of Lies in Speech Acts Theory 292
26. Index of Names 299
27. Index of Subjects 303
28. 305-308 305