Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: On lying and disleading -- I Lies and deception: The landscape of falsehood -- Lying, deception, and related concepts: A conceptual map for ethics -- The morality of deception -- Kant tell an a priori lie -- II Lying, deception, and speaker commitment: Empirical evidence -- Is lying morally different from misleading? An empirical investigation -- "I was only quoting": Shifting viewpoint and speaker commitment -- Memefying deception and deceptive memefication: Multimodal deception on social media -- III Puffery, bluffery, bullshit: How to not quite lie -- Bald-faced bullshit and authoritarian political speech: Making sense of Johnson and Trump -- Practice to deceive: A natural history of the legal bluff -- Just saying, just kidding: Liability for accountability-avoiding speech in ordinary conversation, politics and law -- IV Crossing the perjury threshold: Deceit and falsehood in the courtroom -- Perjury cases and the linguist -- Trickery and deceit: How the pragmatics of interrogation leads innocent people to confess - and factfinders to believe their confessions -- The context of mistrust: Perjury ascriptions in the courtroom -- What counts as a lie in and out of the courtroom? The effect of discourse genre on lie judgments -- Lies, deception, and bullshit in law -- Index