From Lying to Perjury : : Linguistic and Legal Perspectives on Lies and Other Falsehoods / / ed. by Laurence R. Horn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Boogaart, Ronny,; Camp, Elisabeth,; Carson, Thomas L.,; Dynel, Marta,; Engelmann, Neele,; Horn, Laurence,; Jansen, Henrike,; Kassin, Saul,; Kenyon, Tim,; Leeuwen, Maarten van,; Lycan, William G.,; Saul, Jennifer,; Shuy, Roger W.,; Skoczeń, Izabela,; Smywiński-Pohl, Aleksander,; Solan, Lawrence M.,; Sorensen, Roy,; Weissman, Benjamin,; Wiegmann, Alex,
• HerausgeberIn: Horn, Laurence R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 411 p.)

This volume provides new insights on lying and (intentionally) misleading in and out of the courtroom, a timely topic for scholarship and society. Not all deceptive statements are lies; not every lie under oath amounts to perjury—but what are the relevant criteria? Taxonomies of falsehood based on illocutionary force, utterance context and speakers’ intentions have been debated by linguists, moral philosophers, social psychologists and cognitive scientists. Legal scholars have examined the boundary between actual perjury and garden-variety lies. The fourteen previously unpublished essays in this book apply theoretical and empirical tools to delineate the landscape of falsehood, half-truth, perjury, and verbal manipulation, including puffery, bluffing, and bullshit. The papers in this collection address conceptual and ethical aspects of lying vs. misleading and the correlation of this opposition with the Gricean pragmatic distinction between what is said and what is implicated. The questions of truth and lies addressed in this volume have long engaged the attention of scholars in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, organizational research, and the law, and researchers from all these fields will find this book of interest.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: On lying and disleading -- I Lies and deception: The landscape of falsehood -- Lying, deception, and related concepts: A conceptual map for ethics -- The morality of deception -- Kant tell an a priori lie -- II Lying, deception, and speaker commitment: Empirical evidence -- Is lying morally different from misleading? An empirical investigation -- “I was only quoting”: Shifting viewpoint and speaker commitment -- Memefying deception and deceptive memefication: Multimodal deception on social media -- III Puffery, bluffery, bullshit: How to not quite lie -- Bald-faced bullshit and authoritarian political speech: Making sense of Johnson and Trump -- Practice to deceive: A natural history of the legal bluff -- Just saying, just kidding: Liability for accountability-avoiding speech in ordinary conversation, politics and law -- IV Crossing the perjury threshold: Deceit and falsehood in the courtroom -- Perjury cases and the linguist -- Trickery and deceit: How the pragmatics of interrogation leads innocent people to confess – and factfinders to believe their confessions -- The context of mistrust: Perjury ascriptions in the courtroom -- What counts as a lie in and out of the courtroom? The effect of discourse genre on lie judgments -- Lies, deception, and bullshit in law -- Index