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Harald Weinrich, The linguistics of lying and other essays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2007

Tracy Rundstrom Williams
Tracy Rundstrom Williams
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas USA, [email protected]
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Harald Weinrich, The linguistics of lying and other essays. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005, Pp. vii, 148. Pb. $18.95.

This book examines the nature of lying by considering the correlation between language and thought, language and reality, and language and context. In the five essays included, Weinrich relies on literary and philosophical works from Aristotle to Zola to propose his argument that linguistics can examine how language hides thoughts and how truth becomes distorted into lie. He weaves a sophisticated philosophy of the ways in which language is true or untrue, and the mechanisms of linguistics, literature, and life that signal these truths or untruths.

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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , November 2007 , pp. 809 - 810
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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