December 18, 2017
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Nathalie Schnitzer, « « Das Bier unter den Alkoholfreien » – Mensonge et tromperie dans la communication commerciale », Cahiers d’études germaniques, ID : 10.4000/ceg.1482
A lie in its linguistic realisation is a speech act consisting in saying what one believes to be false with the intention of deceiving one’s interlocutor. It is not marked in language, but certain clues help to detect it in discourse. This contribution, based on a corpus in French and German, analyses deceitful contents in a pragmatic perspective. The corpus consists of documents taken from marketing and advertising material. The analysis takes into account European legislation concerning misleading commercial practices and aims to identify some facts of language that, without specifically constituting a lie, favour its implementation in commercial communication.