Aspects of a theory of bullshit

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J. Meibauer
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Abstract

This paper addresses the question whether bullshit is a reasonable pragmatic category. In the first part of the paper, drawing on the insights of Harry Frankfurt’s seminal essay, bullshit is defined as an act of insincere asserting where the speaker shows (a) a loose concern for the truth, and (b) does not want the addressee to become aware of condition (a). The author adds to this definition the condition (c) requiring that the bullshitter expresses more certainty than is adequate with respect to condition (a). In the second part of the paper, it is discussed whether the above definition can cope with special types of bullshit considered to be a challenge to Frankfurt’s definition. These are evasive bullshitting , bullshit lies , and bald-faced bullshitting . It is shown that there is hope for establishing a reasonable pragmatic category of bullshitting if it is related to certain levels of pragmatic description, e.g. conversational implicatures, that can explain the putative challenges.
屁话理论的各个方面
本文探讨了屁话是否是一个合理的语用范畴的问题。在论文的第一部分,根据Harry Frankfurt的开创性文章的见解,胡扯被定义为一种不真诚的主张行为,其中说话者表现出(a)对真相的宽松关注,(b)不希望收件人意识到条件(a)。作者在这个定义中增加了条件(c),要求胡扯者对条件(a)表达更多的确定性。在论文的第二部分,讨论了上述定义是否可以应付被认为是对法兰克福定义的挑战的特殊类型的废话。这些都是闪烁其词的废话,扯淡的谎言,赤裸裸的废话。研究表明,建立一个合理的语用分类是有希望的,如果它与一定层次的语用描述有关,例如会话含义,可以解释假定的挑战。
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