What is it about?
How can you tell whether a politician is lying? One approach is to use methods to detect deception, such as body language. Another approach is to look at tactics used to minimise outrage over deception, such as cover-up and intimidation. An Australian case study shows how these two approaches can be applied.
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Why is it important?
Looking at tactics associated with lying and detecting lying is a different approach than the usual one of arguing about whether a politician is lying.
Perspectives
I have applied the tactics framework to a wide variety of injustices, from sexual harassment to genocide. It also fits political lying remarkably well.
Brian Martin
University of Wollongong
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This page is a summary of: Tactics of political lying: The Iguanas affair, Journal of Language and Politics, February 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.13.4.11mar.
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