Intentionally misleading information (aka Disinformation) is ubiquitous and can be extremely
dangerous. Emotional, financial, and even physical harm can easily result if people are …

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 …

Questions central to the philosophical discussion of lying to others and other-deception
(interpersonal deceiving) may be divided into two kinds. Questions of the first kind are …

This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony,
deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and …

While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of
genuine linguistic analysis of lying. Exploring lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Andreas Stokke presents a comprehensive study of lying and insincere language use. He
investigates how lying relates to other forms of insincerity and explores the kinds of attitudes …

Lying is an important moral phenomenon that most people are affected by on a daily basis—
be it in personal relationships, in political debates, or in the form of fake news. Nevertheless …

This article attempts to give a state-of-the-art picture of impoliteness studies and to indicate a
few prospective research directions to enrich them. It critically surveys a number of …

This paper takes as its bedrock a neo-Gricean definition of the trope of irony, championing
two essential conditions for diagnosing its presence: overt untruthfulness (or pretence) …