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Topics in the linguistics of lying: A reply to Marta Dynel

  • Jörg Meibauer

    Jörg Meibauer is Professor of German Language and Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and Affiliated Professor at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. His research focuses on the semantics-pragmatics interface, the grammar of German, word formation, lexical acquisition, and the linguistics of children’s literature. His monographs include Rhetorische Fragen (1986), Modaler Kontrast und konzeptuelle Verschiebung (1994), Pragmatik (1999), and Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface (2014). Currently, he is editing The Oxford handbook of lying.

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Abstract

This paper replies to Marta Dynel’s review article “Intention to deceive, bald-faced lies, and deceptive implicature: Insights into Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface” (Intercultural Pragmatics 12(3), 309–332), which discusses my book with the aforementioned title (Meibauer 2014a. Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton). In particular, my reply addresses the optimal framework for a linguistic analysis of lying, as well as the roles that definitions of lying play in such a framework. I discuss certain aspects, such as the intention to deceive, bald-faced lies, and deceptive implicatures, with respect to Dynel’s criticisms and proposals and illuminate prospects for further research.

About the author

Jörg Meibauer

Jörg Meibauer is Professor of German Language and Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and Affiliated Professor at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. His research focuses on the semantics-pragmatics interface, the grammar of German, word formation, lexical acquisition, and the linguistics of children’s literature. His monographs include Rhetorische Fragen (1986), Modaler Kontrast und konzeptuelle Verschiebung (1994), Pragmatik (1999), and Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface (2014). Currently, he is editing The Oxford handbook of lying.

Acknowledgments

I am very grateful to Marta Dynel for the careful review of my work, to Istvan Kecskes for giving me the opportunity to reply, and to Björn Technau for checking my English.

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