Reliability in Pragmatics - McCready, Elin (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, Aoyama Gakuin University)

This book considers how observations about the past influence future behaviour, as expressed in language. Focusing on information gathered from speech and other evidence sources, the author offers a model of how judgements about reliability can be made, and how such judgements factor into how people treat information they acquire via those sources