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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Language: | English |
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Springer
1993
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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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