The Oxford Handbook of Lying

ISBN-13: 9780198736578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 688 str.

Jorg Meibauer

Opis

This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, from the combined perspectives of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It will be an essential reference for students and researchers in these fields and will contribute to establishing the vibrant new field of interdisciplinary lying research.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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).