Language and Truth develops the theoretical framework of language, truth, and communication. This is vital reading for scholars, researchers and students

Jacques Moeschler is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva where he specializes in semantics and pragmatics. He is one of the co-authors, with Sandrine Zufferey and Anne Reboul, of Implicatures (2019) and the author of Non-Lexical Pragmatics (2019) and Why Language? (2021).

Foreword

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Part 1: Language, truth, and meaning

Chapter 1: What is language?

Chapter 2: What is truth?

Chapter 3: Truth-condition and non-truth-conditional meaning

Part 2: Discourse, propagation of information, and complexity of meaning

Chapter 4: Truth and political discourses

Chapter 5: Truth and information propagation

Chapter 6: A pragmatic explanation to meaning complexity

Chapter 7: Truth, expertise, and dissemination of science

General conclusion

Glossary

Index