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La lingüística cognitiva : análisis y revisión.
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ISBN: 9788497427494 8497427491 Year: 2008 Publisher: Madrid Biblioteca nueva

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The art of conversation
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ISBN: 0745611109 0745612881 9780745611105 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge Polity press


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The aims of representation : subject, text, history
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ISBN: 0231065841 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Columbia university press

Reading acquisition processes
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ISBN: 1853591947 1853591939 Year: 1993 Volume: 4 Publisher: Clevedon Multilingual Matters

Negotiation analysis.
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ISBN: 0472081578 0472102516 9780472081578 Year: 1991 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan press

Perspektiven auf Sprache : Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zum Gedenken an Hans Hörmann
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ISBN: 3110100681 9783110100686 Year: 1986 Publisher: Berlin de Gruyter


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A pack of lies : towards a sociology of lying
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ISBN: 0521459788 0521453763 9780521459785 0511520980 Year: 1994 Volume: *7 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Defining lies as statements that are intended to deceive, this book considers the contexts in which people tell lies, how they are detected and sometimes exposed, and the consequences for the liars themselves, their dupes, and the wider society. The author provides examples from a number of cultures with distinctive religious and ethical traditions, and delineates domains where lying is the norm, domains that are ambiguous and the one domain (science) that requires truthtelling. He refers to experimental studies on children that show how, at an early age, they acquire the capactiy to lie and learn when it is appropriate to do so. He reviews how lying has been evaluated by moralists, examines why we do not regard novels as lies and relates the human capacity to lie to deceit among other animal species. He concludes that although there are, in all societies, good pragmatic reasons for not lying all the time, there are also strong reasons for lying some of the time.

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