The Oxford Handbook of Lying

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).

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

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.