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Memefying deception and deceptive memefication : multimodal deception on social mediaIn Laurence R. Horn (ed.), From lying to perjury: linguistic and legal perspective on lies and other falsehoods, De Gruyter Mouton. 2022.
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13In tragoedia risus: Analysis of dark humour in post-terrorist attack discourseDiscourse and Communication 12 (4): 382-400. 2018.In this article, we examine dark humour in Internet posts commenting on an online Italian newspaper report published by Il Fatto Quotidiano and devoted to the 2016 terrorist attack in Nice. The analysis focuses on the linguistic forms and socio-pragmatic functions of this dark humour in the wake of the tragedy. We argue that the creative humorous posts are meant to communicate Internet users’ ideologies conceptualised as their true beliefs about the sociopolitical situation and that they are ori…Read more
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1Deception : lying and beyondIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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Deception : lying and beyondIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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5When Both Utterances and Appearances are Deceptive: Deception in Multimodal Film NarrativeIn Fabrizio Macagno & Alessandro Capone (eds.), Inquiries in Philosophical Pragmatics: Issues in Linguistics, Springer. pp. 205-252. 2021.This article gives a comprehensive theoretical account of deception in multimodal film narrative in the light of the pragmatics of film discourse, the cognitive philosophy of film, multimodal analysis, studies of fictional narrative and – last but not least – the philosophy of lying and deception. Critically addressing the extant literature, a range or pertinent notions and issues are examined: multimodality, film narration and the status of the cinematic narrator, the pragmatics of film constru…Read more
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35To Say the Least: Where Deceptively Withholding Information Ends and Lying BeginsTopics in Cognitive Science 12 (2): 555-582. 2018.This paper aims to distil the essence of deception performed by means of withholding information, a topic hitherto largely neglected in the psychological, linguistic, and philosophical research on deception. First, the key conditions for deceptively withholding information are specified. Second, several notions related to deceptively withholding information are critically addressed with a view to teasing out the main forms of withholding information. Third, it is argued that deceptively withhold…Read more
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13Irony, deception and humour: Seeking the truth about overt and covert untruthfulnessMouton de Gruyter. 2018.This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony, deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and philosophical investigation. These three distinct notions are brought together within a neo-Gricean framework and consistently discussed as representing overt or covert untruthfulness. The postulates that represent the interface between language philosophy and pragmatics are illustrated with scripted interactions culled f…Read more
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30Two layers of overt untruthfulnessPragmatics and Cognition 23 (2): 259-283. 2016.This philosophical-pragmatic paper discusses several forms of irony which rest on other figures of speech contingent on overt untruthfulness, namely the figures arising as a result of flouting the first maxim of Quality. It is argued that an ironic implicature may be piggybacked on another implicature, called “as if implicature”, originating from flouting the first maxim of Quality occasioned by metaphor. Metaphorical irony, which is subject to the irony-after-metaphor order of interpretation, e…Read more
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17Introduction to Special Issue on Humour: A Modest Attempt at Presenting Contemporary Linguistic Approaches to Humour StudiesLodz Papers in Pragmatics 4 (1): 1-12. 2008.Introduction to Special Issue on Humour: A Modest Attempt at Presenting Contemporary Linguistic Approaches to Humour Studies
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32There Is Method in the Humorous Speaker's Madness: Humour and Grice's ModelLodz Papers in Pragmatics 4 (1): 159-185. 2008.There Is Method in the Humorous Speaker's Madness: Humour and Grice's Model The interdependence between humour and the Cooperative Principle appears to be a bone of contention in pragmatic studies on verbal humour. The wellentrenched approach advocated by Raskin and Attardo is that jokes constitute the non-bona-fide mode of communication standing vis-à-vis the Gricean model and governed by a humour-CP, and that they violate, not merely flout, the maxims and even the CP. The aim of the article is…Read more
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24No Aggression, Only Teasing: The Pragmatics of Teasing and BanterLodz Papers in Pragmatics 4 (2): 241-261. 2008.No Aggression, Only Teasing: The Pragmatics of Teasing and Banter A bone of contention among researchers is whether the primary function of humour is the expression of aggression against the hearer or the promotion of solidarity between the interlocutors. It is commonly averred that teasing boasts a dichotomous nature, i.e. malignant and benevolent. The former coincides with the potential for criticising, mocking and ostracising the interlocutor, whereas the latter accounts for playfulness and b…Read more
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43Turning speaker meaning on its head: Non-verbal communication an intended meaningsPragmatics and Cognition 19 (3): 422-447. 2011.This article addresses the issue of non-verbal communication in the light of the Gricean conceptualisation of intentionally conveyed meanings. The first goal is to testify that non-verbal cues can be interpreted as nonnatural meanings and speaker meanings, which partake in intentional communication. Secondly, it is argued that non-verbal signals, exemplified by gestures, are similar to utterances which generate the communicator's what is said and/or conversational implicatures, together with the…Read more
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12Comparing and combining covert and overt untruthfulness: On lying, deception, irony and metaphorLatest Issue of Pragmatics Cognition 23 (1): 174-208. 2016.
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18On "Revolutionary Road": A Proposal for Extending the Gricean Model of Communication to Cover Multiple HearersLodz Papers in Pragmatics 6 (2): 283-304. 2010.On "Revolutionary Road": A Proposal for Extending the Gricean Model of Communication to Cover Multiple Hearers The paper addresses the problem of multiple hearers in the context of the Gricean model of communication, which is based on speaker meaning and the Cooperative Principle, together with its subordinate maxims, legitimately flouted to yield implicatures. Grice appears to have conceived of the communicative process as taking place between two interlocutors, assuming that the speaker commun…Read more
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34Comparing and combining covert and overt untruthfulnessPragmatics and Cognition 23 (1): 174-208. 2016.This paper aims to differentiate between lying and irony, typically addressed independently by philosophers and linguists, as well as to discuss the cases when deception co-occurs with, and capitalises on, irony or metaphor. It is argued that the focal distinction can be made with reference to Grice’s first maxim of Quality, whose floutings lead to overt untruthfulness, and whose violations result in covert untruthfulness. Both types of untruthfulness are divided into explicit and implicit subty…Read more
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12On untruthfulness, its adversaries and strange bedfellowsPragmatics and Cognition 23 (1): 1-15. 2016.This introductory paper aims to demystify the concept of untruthfulness. Drawing on the scholarship on deception, the author reports on a distinction between the (objective) truth and (subjective) truthfulness, as well as their respective opposites: falsehood and untruthfulness. An attempt is made to discriminate between truthfulness and sincerity, to notions which capture similar phenomena but have originated in distinct scholarly traditions. Further, the author depicts untruthfulness as an int…Read more