Telling more than the truth: Implicature, speech acts, and ethics in professional communication

Ethicists have long observed that unethical communication may result from texts that contain no overt falsehoods but are nevertheless misleading. Less clear, however, has been the way that context and text work together to create misleading communication. Concepts from linguistics can be used to exp...

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Main Author: Riley, Kathryn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 1993
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 1993, Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 179-196
Further subjects:B Ethical Problem
B Indirect Speech
B Negative Information
B Economic Growth
B Professional Communication
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