Two Definitions of Lying

Mahon, James Edwin

doi:10.5840/ijap200822216

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“…Meibauer (2014) views a selection of figures of speech used for deceptive purposes as lies, contrary to the prevalent assumption that irony (in tandem with other figures) does not reside in assertions (Chisholm and Feehan 1977;Stokke 2013aStokke , 2014, while lies, as traditionally defined, constitute assertions (e.g. Adler 1997;Bok 1978;Chisholm and Feehan 1977;Fallis 2009Fallis , 2010Kupfer 1982;Mahon 2008aMahon , 2008bMannison 1969;Sorensen 2007;Stokke 2013aStokke , 2013bWilliams 2002). Rejecting the "argument from authority" that lies should be restricted to assertions, Meibauer (2014: 136) avers that "untruthful implicatures are bound to assertions (…) In addition, since in a Gricean framework tropes are interpreted on the basis of maxims, this seems to prove the point that lying 14 while using false implicatures is a case of lying."…”

Section: Lying or Deceiving By Implicaturementioning

confidence: 91%

“…Chisholm andFeehan 1977;Bok 1978;Kupfer 1982;Adler 1997;Williams 2002), similar to the following one: "an assertion, the content of which the speaker believes to be false, which is made with the intention to deceive the hearer with regard to that content" (Williams 2002: 96). Incidentally, lying is frequently discussed with reference to another type of intention to deceive, related not to the content, but to the speaker's intention to deceive in terms of his/her belief about the assertion that he/she is making (Chisholm and Feehan 1977;Davidson 1985;Mahon 2008aMahon , 2008bNewey 1997;Williams 2002). The untruthfulness condition for lying is premised on the assumption that lying involves "an indication he is expressing his own opinion" (Chisholm and Feehan 1977: 149).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Adler 1997;Barnes 1994;Bok 1978;Chisholm and Feehan 1977;Ekman 1985;Fraser 1994;Kupfer 1982;Mahon 2008aMahon , 2008bSimpson 1992), inasmuch as the liar's underlying aim is to deceive. However, "deception" is frequently used as a label for any deception exclusive of lying (e.g.…”

Section: Lying or Deceiving By Implicaturementioning

confidence: 98%

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Intention to deceive, bald-faced lies, and deceptive implicature: Insights into Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface

Dynel

2015

Intercultural Pragmatics

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This paper gives a critical overview of Jörg Meibauer's (2014) monograph entitled Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface and addresses a selection of theoretical issues pertinent to lying and deception. Thus, following a brief summary of the volume's contents, more attention is paid to the speaker's intention to deceive as a potentially necessary condition for lying, which invites a question concerning the status of bald-faced lies. Further, this article focuses on deception performed by dint of implicature. Meibauer's (2014) postulates in reference to these issues are critically revisited, and the focal phenomena are examined from a broader perspective.Keywords: bald-faced lie, deception, figure of speech, first maxim of Quality, Grice, implicature, lie, what is said General overviewIn his recent monograph, wittily entitled Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Jörg Meibauer (2014) brings together diversified academic traditions to tease out the mechanics of lying. He collates insights from the philosophy of language, semantics, and pragmatics (focusing on Speech Act Theory, as well as neo-Gricean and post-Gricean frameworks) in order to give a broad but, at the same time, detailed description of lying. The panoply of theories and proposals that feed into Meibauer's (2014) account and the number of references he makes in the course of the volume testify to his broad linguistic knowledge of the scholarship on not only lying and deception but also notions and approaches not immediately related to this topic. By transposing those concepts and conceptualizations onto lying, the author develops an internally heterogeneous analysis of the focal phenomenon. The succinct summary below cannot possibly do justice to the plethora of the postulates put forward in the monograph.

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Section: Lying or Deceiving By Implicaturementioning

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Intention to deceive, bald-faced lies, and deceptive implicature: Insights into Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface

Dynel

2015

Intercultural Pragmatics

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“…Deception has been regarded as an important part of human interactions across cultures (Mahon, 2008). Essentially, "lying refers to the act by which one deliberately makes a false statement with the intent to instill false beliefs into the mind of the recipient" (Talwar, Gordon, & Lee;2007, p. 804).…”

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Deceptive Behavior in Young Children Confronted with Physical Evidence of their Transgressions: Links with Executive Functioning and Internalizing or Externalizing Symptoms

Visu‐Petra

Jurje

Fizeşan

2014

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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“…We defined lying as the assertion a false belief with either the intention that the statement is believed to be true or with the intention that it is believed to be true by the other person, or both (Mahon, 2008). A within subject study was conducted for conditions of truth telling and lying.…”

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Lying through the eyes

Lim

Friedrich

Radun

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Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction: Gaze in Multimodal Interaction

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In this pilot study, we investigated if it is possible to detect lies through eye gaze behavior. Earlier research suggests that lying increases the cognitive load, resulting in less eye-movements and shorter saccade amplitudes. To investigate these findings further, a structured interview was conducted with three subjects. During the interview, subjects were supposed to lie in half of their answers. The subjects' eye gazes were tracked during the interview session. We hypothesized that people show shorter saccade amplitudes and tend to engage in less eye-movements when lying. A significant difference could be observed for saccade amplitudes between the truth telling and lie telling situations. The overall results support the theory that cognitive load decreases the number of eye movements, but our analysis also revealed significant individual differences. This raised the question whether different individuals have different ways of handling deception and whether different viewing behavior patterns could be found for different groups of individuals.

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Two Definitions of Lying

Cited by 65 publications

References 12 publications

Intention to deceive, bald-faced lies, and deceptive implicature: Insights into Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface

Intention to deceive, bald-faced lies, and deceptive implicature: Insights into Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface

Deceptive Behavior in Young Children Confronted with Physical Evidence of their Transgressions: Links with Executive Functioning and Internalizing or Externalizing Symptoms

Lying through the eyes

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