The Oxford Handbook of Lying

Edited by Jörg Meibauer

Oxford Handbooks

The first volume to offer a comprehensive account of all aspects of lying and its subtypes
Includes approaches from linguistics, philosophy, and psychology
Chapters contributed by international experts in the field from a range of theoretical backgrounds

The Oxford Handbook of Lying

Edited by Jörg Meibauer

Description

This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, with chapters contributed by leading international experts in the field. We are confronted daily with cases of lying, deception, bullshitting, and 'fake news', making it imperative to understand how lying works, how it can be defined, and whether it can be detected. A further important issue is whether lying should always be considered a bad thing or if, in some cases, it is simply a useful instrument of human cognition. This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of these and other issues from the combined perspectives of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. Chapters offer precise definitions of lying and its subtypes, and outline the range of fields in which lying and deception play a role, from empirical lie detection and the acquisition of lying to its role in fiction, metaphor, and humour. They also describe the tools and approaches that are used by scholars researching lying and deception, such as questionnaire studies, EEG, neuroimaging, and the polygraph.

The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers in a range of fields who are looking to deepen their understanding of all aspects of lying and deception, and will contribute to establishing the vibrant new field of interdisciplinary lying research.

The Oxford Handbook of Lying

Edited by Jörg Meibauer

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1:Introduction: What is lying?, Jörg Meibauer
Part I: Traditions
2:Classic philosophical approaches to lying and deception, James Edwin Mahon
3:Contemporary approaches to the philosophy of lying, James Edwin Mahon
4:Linguistic approaches to lying and deception, Karol J. Hardin
5:Psycholinguistic approaches to lying and deception, Lewis Bott and Emma Williams
6:Lying, deception, and the brain, Alexa Decker, Amanda Disney, Brianna D'Elia, and Julian Paul Keenan
Part II: Concepts
7:Lying and truth, Stephen Wright
8:Lying and assertion, Mark Jary
9:Lying, belief, and knowledge, Matthew Benton
10:Lying, sincerity, and quality, Andreas Stokke
11:Lying and deception, Swati Gupta and Andrew Ortony
12:Lying and certainty, Neri Marsili
13:Lying and omissions, Don Fallis
14:Lying, implicating, and presupposing, Jörg Meibauer
15:Lying and self-deception, Kathi Beier
16:Lying, testimony, and epistemic vigilance, Eliot Michaelson
Part III: Types of lies and deception
17:Knowledge lies and group lies, Julia Staffel
18:Selfless assertions, Jennifer Lackey
19:Bald-faced lies, Jörg Meibauer
20:Bullshitting, Andreas Stokke
21:Bluffing, Jennifer Perillo
22:White and prosocial lies, Simone Dietz
Part IV: Distinctions
23:Lying and fiction, Emar Maier
24:Lying and quotation, Matthew McGlone and Max Baryshevtsev
25:Lying and humour, Marta Dynel
26:Lying, irony, and default interpretation, Rachel Giora
27:Lying and vagueness, Paul Egré and Benjamin Icard
28:Lying, metaphor, and hyperbole, Claudia Claridge
29:Lying and politeness, Marina Terkourafi
Part V: Domains
30:Development of lying and cognitive abilities, Victoria Talwar
31:Lying and lie detection, Samantha Mann
32:Lying and computational linguistics, Kees van Deemter and Ehud Reiter
33:Lying in social psychology, Bella M. DePaulo
34:Lying and psychology, Matthias Gamer and Kristina Suchotzki
35:Lying and neuroscience, Giorgio Ganis
36:Lying and ethics, Thomas L. Carson
37:Lying and the law, Stuart P. Green
38:Lying in economy, Marta Serra-Garcia
39:Lying and education, Anita E. Kelly
40:Lying and discourse analysis, Dariusz Galasiński
41:Lying and politics, Piers Robinson, David Miller, Eric Herring, and Vian Bakir
42:Lying and history, Thomas L. Carson
43:Lying and the arts, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
44:Lying in different cultures, Fumiko Nishimura

The Oxford Handbook of Lying

Edited by Jörg Meibauer

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Edited by Jörg Meibauer, Professor of German Language and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

Jörg Meibauer is Professor of German Language and Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research focuses on cognitive pragmatics, with an emphasis on the grammar-pragmatics interface. His many publications include Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (De Gruyter Mouton 2014) and he is the editor of multiple volumes such as What is a Context? Linguistic Approaches and Challenges (with R. Finkbeiner and P. B. Schumacher; Benjamins 2012) and Pejoration (with R. Finkbeiner; Benjamins 2016).

Contributors:

Vian Bakir, Bangor University
Max Baryshevtsev, University of Texas at Austin
Kathi Beier, University of Erfurt
Matthew A. Benton, Seattle Pacific University
Lewis Bott, Cardiff University
Thomas L. Carson, Loyola University Chicago
Claudia Claridge, University of Augsburg
Brianna D'Elia, University of New England College of Dental Medicine
Alexa Decker, private sector researcher
Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen
Bella M. DePaulo, University of California Santa Barbara
Simone Dietz, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf
Amanda Disney, Indiana University School of Dentistry
Marta Dynel, University of Łódź
Paul Egré, CNRS/École Normale Supérieure Paris
Don Fallis, University of Arizona
Dariusz Galasiński, University of Wolverhampton
Matthias Gamer, University of Würzburg
Giorgio Ganis, Plymouth University
Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University
Stuart P. Green, Rutgers University
Swati Gupta, Callaghan Innovation
Karol J. Hardin, Baylor University
Eric Herring, University of Bristol
Benjamin Icard, Institut Jean Nicod
Mark Jary, University of Roehampton
Julian Paul Keenan, Montclair State University
Anita E. Kelly, University of Notre Dame
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, University of Tübingen
Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University
James Edwin Mahon, City University of New York
Emar Maier, University of Groningen
Samantha Mann, University of Portsmouth
Neri Marsili, University of Sheffield
Matthew McGlone, University of Texas at Austin
Jörg Meibauer, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Eliot Michaelson, King's College London
David Miller, University of Bath
Fumiko Nishimura, University of Waikato
Andrew Ortony, Northwestern University
Jennifer Perillo, Indiana University
Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen
Piers Robinson, University of Sheffield
Marta Serra-Garcia, University of California San Diego
Julia Staffel, Washington University St Louis
Andreas Stokke, Uppsala University
Kristina Sutchotzi, Ghent University
Victoria Talwar, McGill University
Marina Terkourafi, Leiden University
Emma Williams, University of Bath
Stephen Wright, University of Oxford

The Oxford Handbook of Lying

Edited by Jörg Meibauer

Oxford Handbooks

Reviews and Awards

"All in all, this book includes passionate analyses for students and professors of linguistics, philosophy, psychology, media studies, cultural studies, etc., and presents a critical approach of the literature on lying... More importantly, seeing all these examples from different fields, we realize how ubiquitous lying and deceiving really are." - Sabina Tabacaru, Université Paris 8, Linguist