Bøker av Laurence R. Horn

What is the boundary between lying and (intentionally) misleading? How does perjury differ from a garden-variety lie? In these fourteen essays, distinguished linguists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and legal scholars draw on theoretical and empirical studies to map the landscape of falsehood, deception, and perjury and to survey practices of manipulation through puffery, bluffing and bullshit in courtrooms, politics, and everyday life.

This is a synthesis of work on the structure, meaning and use of negation and negative expression. It aims to provide a full picture of negation in natural language and thought.