[Lingtyp] QUERY: lexical expressions for 'lie', 'truth', 'deception' etc. in various languages and cultures

[Paolo Ramat]

Dear Christian,  speaking of idiolects  -- at different sociolinguistic
layers-- the first  Ital.  equivalent  of "'mentire'', to  lie, that comes
to my mind is  'raccontar balle'. At the present moment I have no
dictionaries at my  disposal,  but I am  sure that  there other  idioms
too. All languages have certainly  particular ways of expressing  the
notion, according  to  their specific historical culture.
Happy New Year😀😃🙂
Paolo


Il Dom 1 Gen 2023, 20:03 Christian Lehmann <christian.lehmann at uni-erfurt.de>
ha scritto:

> Dear Masha,
>
> I assume you know
>
> Coleman, Linda & Kay, Paul 1981, "Prototype semantics: the English word
> lie". *Language* 57:26-44.
>
> One approach (which you have certainly thought of, too) is to consult
> dictionaries of synonyms. For instance,
>
> https://www.freethesaurus.com/lie
>
> gives you 15 (near) synonyms of English *lie*.
>
> https://www.openthesaurus.de/
>
> gives you the same number for German. I am sure sociolects are rich in
> words meaning 'lie'. The one current in my youth (*schocken*) is not even
> listed by the openthesaurus.
>
> All the best at least for this year,
>
> Christian
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