looking for references on lies, lying, telling lies

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:54 AM -0700 9/16/02, Mary Bucholtz wrote:
>May,
>
>Eve Sweetser has an article on lying from a lexical semantic perspective in
>Dorothy Holland and Naomi Quinn's book Cultural Models in Language and
>Thought.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Mary
>
And nobody has yet mentioned the classic paper by Linda Coleman and
Paul Kay in Language (1981):  "Prototype semantics:  The English word
_lie_", Lg. 57: 26-44.

Larry