The truth about “it is true that…”

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dc.citation.epage299en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage284en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber23en_US
dc.contributor.authorAkman, V.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSenol, M. B.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T13:50:21Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T13:50:21Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Computer Engineeringen_US
dc.description.abstractDeflationism, one of the influential philosophical doctrines of truth, holds that there is no property of truth, and that overt uses of the predicate "true" are redundant. However, the hypothetical examples used by theorists to exemplify deflationism are isolated sentences, offering little to examine what the predicate adds to meaning within context. We oppose the theory not on philosophical but on empirical grounds. We collect 7,610 occurrences of "it is true that" from 10 influential periodicals published in the United States. We classify and annotate these with respect to the positions of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions that they contain. This way we investigate the contextual relationships between the proposition following "it is true that" with its surroundings. Overall, 34 different syntactical patterns are encountered. In some occurrences of "true", the predicate acts in the same manner as a performative verb does. These occurrences, having been observed in linguistically reliable media, constitute pragmatic counter-examples to deflationism.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1075/pc.23.2.05akmen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1569–9943
dc.identifier.issn0929–0907
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/38186
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Co.en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.23.2.05akmen_US
dc.source.titlePragmatics & Cognitionen_US
dc.subjectContexten_US
dc.subjectCorporaen_US
dc.subjectDeflationismen_US
dc.subjectPragmaticsen_US
dc.subjectSemanticsen_US
dc.subjectTruthen_US
dc.titleThe truth about “it is true that…”en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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