BHA: truth & irony

[RChametzky@xxxxxxxx (Robert Chametzky)]

     Hello:

     Having read through the archived threads on 'truth' and on 'irony', I
     have some references to suggest:

     "Theories of truth" by Richard Kirkham (MIT Press 1992, paperback
     1995). Gets you through disquotation, deflation, Tarski, etc etc etc.


        'Irony and the use-mention distinction' by D.Sperber & D.Wilson, in
     "Radical Pragmatics", P.Cole, ed., (Academic Press 1981) pp. 295-318.

        "Relevance" by D.Sperber & D.Wilson 2nd ed. (Blackwell 1995). In
     this they take back some of what they put forward in the earlier, pre
     Relevance Theory, approach to irony. Both are worth reading for anyone
     who has found the traditional accounts of irony (and other figurative
     uses of language) less than compelling (viz., anyone who has looked).
     Relevance Theory is clearly the leading research program in linguistic
     pragmatics currently. More general introductions to this latter area:

        "Pragmatics and natural language understanding" by Georgia Green
     2nd. ed. (Erlbaum 1996).
        "Pragmatics" by Stephen Levinson (Cambridge 1983).

     And, for those who might want to get more technical and detailed about
     stuff like 'non natural meaning', 'speaker meaning', 'utterance
     meaning', and implicature', the best place to start is

     'Paul Grice and the philosophy of language' by Stephen Neale in
     "Linguistics & Philosophy" v.15 #5 1992.


     Sei Gesund.

     Rob Chametzky


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