Mouton Series in Pragmatics -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Perspectives on lying -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Lying in the private sphere, on the Internet, and in politics -- 1.2.1 Lying in the private sphere -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- Scene 5 -- Scene 6 -- 1.2.2 Lying on the Internet -- 1.2.3 Lying in politics -- 1.3 Ethical versus linguistic perspectives -- 1.4 The acquisition of lying -- 1.5 Psychological and neurological findings -- 1.6 Universality of lying -- 1.7 Lying and deceiving -- 2 Approaching a linguistic concept of lying -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The semantics-pragmatics distinction -- 2.3 Lexical semantics: The meaning of to lie -- 2.4 Interface approach: Lying and sentence types -- 2.5 The case of relative clauses -- 2.6 Conclusions -- 3 Assertion and lying -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Assertion and statement -- 3.3 The sincerity condition -- 3.4 Perlocution -- 3.5 The maxim of Quality -- 3.6 Assertoric commitment -- 3.7 Truth, truth conditions, and truthfulness -- 3.8 Assertion, common ground, and presupposition -- 3.9 Indirect assertions and explicit performatives -- 3.10 Expressive meaning -- 3.11 A simple definition of assertion -- 4 Defining lying -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A definition of lying -- 4.3 Intention to deceive -- 4.4 Bald-faced lies and self-deception -- 4.4.1 Bald-faced lies -- 4.4.2 Self-deception -- 4.5 Lying and falsely implicating -- 4.5.1 Normativity and cancellability -- 4.5.2 A definition of conversational implicature -- 4.5.3 "Lying while saying the truth": Extended definition of lying -- 4.6 Falsely presupposing and falsely conventionally implicating -- 4.7 Underdeterminacy and explicature/impliciture -- 4.8 Vagueness and imprecision -- 4.9 Prosocial lies -- 4.10 Conclusions -- 5 Interface Problems -- 5.1 Introduction.

5.2 Aspect-sensitivity, or: Did Clinton lie? -- 5.3 Fiction -- 5.4 Irony and tautology -- 5.5 Understatement and overstatement (hyperbole) -- 5.6 Lying and bullshitting -- 5.7 Conclusions -- 6 Lying and quotation -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Lying, direct/indirect quotation, and the verbatim assumption -- 6.3 Lying and mixed quotation -- 6.4 Lying and scare quotation -- 6.5 Fairness and transparency -- 6.6 The case of the German quotative wollen -- 6.7 Conclusions -- 7 Relative lies -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Accuracy and disagreement -- 7.3 Verum focus -- 7.4 The assertion of clarity -- 7.5 The assertion of certainty -- 7.6 Reliability and selfless assertion -- 7.7 Conclusions -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.