deception, indirection, etc

[Kratz, Corinne]

A colleague who works in the Middle East/Arabic and Islamic Studies just asked me for suggestions on the topic of using language to mean two things at once--in codes, or in mental reservations or double-entendres meant to hide what one is actually thinking while appearing to agree with the interlocutor without technically lying.  He used a book by Perez Zagorin, an historian, writing about the sixteenth century, called Ways of Lying.  I suggested some things on indirection and deception in political language, but what else would you all suggest?

Thanks for suggestions.

Corinne A. Kratz
Emory Director, African Critical Inquiry Program
Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African Studies
Emory University
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