From Lying to Perjury : : Linguistic and Legal Perspectives on Lies and Other Falsehoods /

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

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 i...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 411 p.)
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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

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