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This contribution looks into the illocutionary act of assertion which takes part in weaving contemporary digital-age narratives through the lens of Frankfurt's notion of bullshit from two perspectives, the speaker's and the hearer's, as they evaluate assertoric competence for different public asserters. It focuses on the action component of asserting, which is an act of engaging the speaker's responsibility, and attempts to problematize bullshit assertions through the notion of fact-checking. The discussion is conducted using examples of bullshit assertions performed in strategic interaction contexts – contexts in which speakers pursue a strategic goal and attempt to anticipate the acts of their interlocutors, as speakers and hearers work to project a particular social image of themselves. |
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