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Created by: Brooke Ferguson
Created on: 12-05-17 14:04

Define Lying

an untruth said as a truth (an assertion) intending the recipient to believe it as truth

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Define Misleading

A form of deception and implying that a lie is the truth; bending the truth (implicature – imply)

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Why are we never explicitly taught conversational rules?

Because they are innate e.g co-operativeness

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What is meant by being co-operative?

Telling the truth and being agreeable in their relations with other people

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Why do people tend to believe you are telling the truth when you are cooperative?

Because we just assume people are making useful contributions otherwise it'd be impossible to properly communicate

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Describe the Athanasius and mob example

mob assumes he is not Athanasius when he tells them he is “not far away” because he is being co-operative even though he is misleading them.

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Who agrees that lying is worse than misleading?

Webber

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Why does Webber argue that lying is worse than misleading?

- undermines your credibility and ought to preserve ours and others - you're wholly responsible for your assertion but if misleading, you are not responsible for audience's inference of your implicature

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Who agrees that misleading is worse than lying?

Rees

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Why does Rees say that misleading is worse than lying?

Misleading exploits the audiences obligation to infer implicatures - this exploits their good will

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A form of deception and implying that a lie is the truth; bending the truth (implicature – imply)

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Why are we never explicitly taught conversational rules?

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