Publications

Publication details [#53067]

Bloomquist, Jennifer. 2010. Lying, cheating, and stealing: A study of categorical misdeeds. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (6) : 1595–1605.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

categorization | crime | lying | prototype | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study argues that the concepts lie, steal, and cheat, are members of the same specialized semantic category which possesses a specific range of prototypical characteristics that disconnects them from other types of offenses.