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  1. This review deals with the communicative act of lying from a linguistic point of view, linguistics comprising both grammar and pragmatics. Integrating findings from the philosophy of language and from psychology, I show that the potential for lying is rooted in the language system.

  2. Sep 1, 2017 · Lying and language came to be entangled in a never-ending co-evolutionary spiral, which changed the map of communicative relationships within communities, and participated in shaping our languages, societies, cognitions and emotions. We evolved for lying, and because of lying, just as much as we evolved for and because of honest communication.

    • Daniel Dor
    • 2017
  3. Until the 1980s, most research on lying and deception focused on cues at the non-verbal level (Dilmon 2009), at which point researchers began to emphasize the “prosody of speech”: paralinguistic cues such as pauses, response duration, speech errors, and linguistic markers of deception (Shuy 1998).

  4. The chapter is concerned with discourse-analytic perspectives on lying and deception. Starting with an assertion that lying is linguistically uninteresting—there are no linguistic markers of lying—the chapter argues for an ‘all-linguistic’ account of deception.

  5. Mar 2, 2020 · Lying should be distinguished from other actions and other, similar, speech acts. You can deceive without lying, for example by non-verbal behavior, such as acting as if you do not see your friend walking out of the bar.

    • Hans van Ditmarsch, Petra Hendriks, Rineke Verbrugge
    • 2020
  6. Assuming a broadly neo-Gricean background, this review fo-cuses on four theoretical topics: the role of the truth in lying, the scalarity and imprecision of lying, the speaker’s intent to deceive, and the possibility of producing deceptive implicatures.

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  8. May 5, 2020 · The suggestion that lying as a part of our communication with one another has evolutionary roots has prompted researchers from many domains to investigate the features of lying.

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