Overview

This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, with chapters contributed by leading international experts in the field. We are confronted daily with cases of lying, deception, bullshitting, and 'fake news', making it imperative to understand how lying works, how it can be defined, and whether it can be detected. A further important issue is whether lying should always be considered a bad thing or if, in some cases, it is simply a useful instrument of human cognition. This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of these and other issues from the combined perspectives of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. Chapters offer precise definitions of lying and its subtypes, and outline the range of fields in which lying and deception play a role, from empirical lie detection and the acquisition of lying to its role in fiction, metaphor, and humour. They also describe the tools and approaches that are used by scholars researching lying and deception, such as questionnaire studies, EEG, neuroimaging, and the polygraph. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers in a range of fields who are looking to deepen their understanding of all aspects of lying and deception, and will contribute to establishing the vibrant new field of interdisciplinary lying research.

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Author:   Jörg Meibauer (Professor of German Language and Linguistics, Professor of German Language and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.340kg
ISBN:  

9780198736578

ISBN 10:   0198736576
Pages:   688
Publication Date:   22 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Jörg Meibauer: Introduction: What is lying? Part I: Traditions 2: James Edwin Mahon: Classic philosophical approaches to lying and deception 3: James Edwin Mahon: Contemporary approaches to the philosophy of lying 4: Karol J. Hardin: Linguistic approaches to lying and deception 5: Lewis Bott and Emma Williams: Psycholinguistic approaches to lying and deception 6: Alexa Decker, Amanda Disney, Brianna D'Elia, and Julian Paul Keenan: Lying, deception, and the brain Part II: Concepts 7: Stephen Wright: Lying and truth 8: Mark Jary: Lying and assertion 9: Matthew Benton: Lying, belief, and knowledge 10: Andreas Stokke: Lying, sincerity, and quality 11: Swati Gupta and Andrew Ortony: Lying and deception 12: Neri Marsili: Lying and certainty 13: Don Fallis: Lying and omissions 14: Jörg Meibauer: Lying, implicating, and presupposing 15: Kathi Beier: Lying and self-deception 16: Eliot Michaelson: Lying, testimony, and epistemic vigilance Part III: Types of lies and deception 17: Julia Staffel: Knowledge lies and group lies 18: Jennifer Lackey: Selfless assertions 19: Jörg Meibauer: Bald-faced lies 20: Andreas Stokke: Bullshitting 21: Jennifer Perillo: Bluffing 22: Simone Dietz: White and prosocial lies Part IV: Distinctions 23: Emar Maier: Lying and fiction 24: Matthew McGlone and Max Baryshevtsev: Lying and quotation 25: Marta Dynel: Lying and humour 26: Rachel Giora: Lying, irony, and default interpretation 27: Paul Egré and Benjamin Icard: Lying and vagueness 28: Claudia Claridge: Lying, metaphor, and hyperbole 29: Marina Terkourafi: Lying and politeness Part V: Domains 30: Victoria Talwar: Development of lying and cognitive abilities 31: Samantha Mann: Lying and lie detection 32: Kees van Deemter and Ehud Reiter: Lying and computational linguistics 33: Bella M. DePaulo: Lying in social psychology 34: Matthias Gamer and Kristina Suchotzki: Lying and psychology 35: Giorgio Ganis: Lying and neuroscience 36: Thomas L. Carson: Lying and ethics 37: Stuart P. Green: Lying and the law 38: Marta Serra-Garcia: Lying in economy 39: Anita E. Kelly: Lying and education 40: Dariusz Galasiński: Lying and discourse analysis 41: Piers Robinson, David Miller, Eric Herring, and Vian Bakir: Lying and politics 42: Thomas L. Carson: Lying and history 43: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer: Lying and the arts 44: Fumiko Nishimura: Lying in different cultures

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All in all, this book includes passionate analyses for students and professors of linguistics, philosophy, psychology, media studies, cultural studies, etc., and presents a critical approach of the literature on lying... More importantly, seeing all these examples from different fields, we realize how ubiquitous lying and deceiving really are. * Sabina Tabacaru, Universite Paris 8, Linguist *

Author Information

Jörg Meibauer is Professor of German Language and Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research focuses on cognitive pragmatics, with an emphasis on the grammar-pragmatics interface. His many publications include Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (De Gruyter Mouton 2014) and he is the editor of multiple volumes such as What is a Context? Linguistic Approaches and Challenges (with R. Finkbeiner and P. B. Schumacher; Benjamins 2012) and Pejoration (with R. Finkbeiner; Benjamins 2016).

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