
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 ...
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From Lying to Perjury
Linguistic and Legal Perspectives on Lies and Other Falsehoods
Gebunden, VIII, 411 S.
32 b/w and 17 col. ill., 17 b/w tbl.
Sprache: Englisch
230 mm
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-073839-1
Titelnr.: 95452191
Gewicht: 719 g
De Gruyter (2022)
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