Horn, Laurence R.
(ed.)
Editorial: Walter de Gruyter
Colección: Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] ; 3
Número de páginas: 419 págs.
Fecha de edición: 24-10-2023
EAN: 9783111356884
ISBN: 978-3-11-135688-4
Precio (sin IVA): 27,45 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 28,55 €
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 boundary between actual perjury and garden-variety lies.