Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction: On lying and disleading 1
4. I Lies and deception: The landscape of falsehood
5. Lying, deception, and related concepts: A conceptual map for ethics 15
6. The morality of deception 41
7. Kant tell an a priori lie 65
8. II Lying, deception, and speaker commitment: Empirical evidence
9. Is lying morally different from misleading? An empirical investigation 89
10. “I was only quoting”: Shifting viewpoint and speaker commitment 113
11. Memefying deception and deceptive memefication: Multimodal deception on social media 139
12. III Puffery, bluffery, bullshit: How to not quite lie
13. Bald-faced bullshit and authoritarian political speech: Making sense of Johnson and Trump 165
14. Practice to deceive: A natural history of the legal bluff 195
15. Just saying, just kidding: Liability for accountability-avoiding speech in ordinary conversation, politics and law 227
16. IV Crossing the perjury threshold: Deceit and falsehood in the courtroom
17. Perjury cases and the linguist 261
18. Trickery and deceit: How the pragmatics of interrogation leads innocent people to confess – and factfinders to believe their confessions 289
19. The context of mistrust: Perjury ascriptions in the courtroom 309
20. What counts as a lie in and out of the courtroom? The effect of discourse genre on lie judgments 353
21. Lies, deception, and bullshit in law 381
22. Index 409