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Sacks, Harvey. 1975. Everyone has to lie. In Sanches, Mary and Ben G. Blount, eds. Sociocultural dimensions of language use. Academic Press. pp. 57–79.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

lying

Annotation

On how to find out whether a statement members make about the social world is true. In the course of the discussion S. attempts to show that the statement 'Everyone has to lie' is true.