Aydın, Çağla and Arslan, Seçkin and Tanış Şapcı, Selma Berfin and Kalender, Şeyma and Güneş, Ayberk Kaan (2024) "They say" makes good liars: an investigation on evidentiality in language and deception. In: 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Abstract
A speaker’s use of language is one of the most important
indicators in detecting deception. To date, however, little
research has focused on grammatical cues used in deceitful
statements. One such cue is evidentiality which is the
grammatical encoding for the source of information; i.e.,
whether the speaker has direct or indirect access to what they
assert. This study investigates whether and how evidentiality
coding in Turkish, an evidential language, interacts with
producing deceitful and truthful narratives. Deceptive
retellings were notably longer and syntactically more complex
compared to truthful counterparts. Our hypothesis of
increased past forms in deception was confirmed, alongside a
heightened use of direct evidential inflection (–DI) in
deceptive conditions. This exploration sheds light on the
nuanced relationship between grammatical evidentiality and
deceptive language use.
Item Type: | Papers in Conference Proceedings |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > Psychology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Depositing User: | Çağla Aydın |
Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2024 15:47 |
Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2024 15:47 |
URI: | https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/50357 |