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

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2022

From Lying to Perjury

Linguistic and Legal Perspectives on Lies and Other Falsehoods

Edited by: Laurence R. Horn

Volume 3 in the series Foundations in Language and Law [FLL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733730

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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The fourteen previously unpublished essays in this book apply theoretical and empirical tools to delineate the landscape of falsehood, half-truth, perjury, and verbal manipulation, including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.

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Laurence R. Horn, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: On lying and disleading Laurence Horn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Lies and deception: The landscape of falsehood
Lying, deception, and related concepts: A conceptual map for ethics Thomas L. Carson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
The morality of deception William G. Lycan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Kant tell an a priori lie Roy Sorensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
II Lying, deception, and speaker commitment: Empirical evidence
Is lying morally different from misleading? An empirical investigation Alex Wiegmann and Neele Engelmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
“I was only quoting”: Shifting viewpoint and speaker commitment Ronny Boogaart, Henrike Jansen and Maarten van Leeuwen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Memefying deception and deceptive memefication: Multimodal deception on social media Marta Dynel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
III Puffery, bluffery, bullshit: How to not quite lie
Bald-faced bullshit and authoritarian political speech: Making sense of Johnson and Trump Tim Kenyon and Jennifer Saul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Practice to deceive: A natural history of the legal bluff Laurence Horn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Just saying, just kidding: Liability for accountability-avoiding speech in ordinary conversation, politics and law Elisabeth Camp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
IV Crossing the perjury threshold: Deceit and falsehood in the courtroom
Perjury cases and the linguist Roger W. Shuy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Trickery and deceit: How the pragmatics of interrogation leads innocent people to confess – and factfinders to believe their confessions Saul Kassin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
The context of mistrust: Perjury ascriptions in the courtroom Izabela Skoczeń and Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
What counts as a lie in and out of the courtroom? The effect of discourse genre on lie judgments Benjamin Weissman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Lies, deception, and bullshit in law Lawrence M. Solan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers in Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Language and Law, Forensic Linguistics
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 411
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 32
- Coloured Illustrations: 17
- Tables: 17
Keywords: Lying vs. Misleading; Perjury; Language and Law; Implicature and Law

eBook

Published: June 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110733730

Hardcover

Published: June 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110738391

Paperback

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111356884