The Art of the Lie

Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 9781633885967
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
This book shows how language can be used strategically to manipulate beliefs. From Machiavelli to P. T. Barnum to Donald Trump, many have perfected the art of strategically using language to gain the upper hand, set a tone, change the subject, or influence people's beliefs and behaviors. Language--both words themselves and rhetorical tactics such as metaphor, irony, slang, and humor--can effectively manipulate the minds of the listener. In this book, Marcel Danesi, a renowned linguistic anthropologist and semiotician, looks at language that is used not to present arguments logically or rationally, but to "move" audiences in order to gain their confidence and build consensus. He demonstrates that through language techniques communicators can not only sway opinions but also shape listeners' very perception of reality. He assesses how the communicative environment in which the art of the lie unfolds--such as on social media or in emotionally-charged gatherings--impacts the results. Danesi also investigates why lies are often accepted as valid. Artful lying fits in with an Internet society that is largely disinterested in what is true and what is false and in which attention is often given to speech that is entertaining or persuasive. Have we become immune to lies because of a social media discourse shaped by untruths? In an electronic age where facts are deemed irrelevant and conspiracies are accorded as much credibility as truths, this book discusses the implications of lying and language for the future of belief, ethics, and American democracy itself.

The Art of Lying

Author: Sally Fairfax
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781975649227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
Get what you WANT in life! DESTROY competition! Get AHEAD of the game! Everyone lies. Learn to do it the right way. Why get your juices flowing on things like honesty, integrity, and authentic, non-superficial relationships when you can lie and cheat your way through all of it and have a great chance of freedom, gratification, and chance for moral or immoral success? This game-changing guide is for aspiring con-artists who want to shake up their routine and embrace a powerful new approach to hoodwinking, swindling, fooling, double-crossing, rooking, wheedling, coaxing, and above all sweet-talking your way into anything. Are you ready to LIE? You will learn: - Proper body language when lying. - Befriending the correct people/targets. - Learning to be better than Robin Hood himself! - Building genuine trust and rapport within targets. - Developing the image of an honest man/woman. - Covering your bum-bum! - Overcoming guilty feelings. - And much more! Click on "Look Inside" to Learn More!

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

Author: Марк Твен
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5457749983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 11

Book Description
"On the Decay of the Art of Lyingis" a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1885 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. In the essay, Twain laments the dour ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's "most faithfull friend."

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732630994
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10

Book Description
Reproduction of the original.

The Lie and How We Told It

Author: Tommi Parrish
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 168396067X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
A friendship fumbles and falls apart after an uncertain encounter in this graphic novel from a remarkable new voice. Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships.

The Art of Lying

Author: Kazuo Sakai
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
ISBN: 9781578260553
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
In this intriguing study of the role of lies in human behavior, a noted Japanese psychiatrist and a successful businessman argue that despite everything we've been taught in America, lies make the world go 'round. They bring to light the benefits of lying that long have been hidden behind the universal belief that lying is wrong.

The Truth Behind the Lie

Author: Sara Lövestam
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250300088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
The Truth Behind The Lie is Sara Lövestam’s award-winning and gripping novel about blurred lines, second chances, and the lengths one will go to for the truth. When a six-year-old girl disappears and calling the police isn’t an option, her desperate mother Pernilla turns to an unlikely source for help. She finds a cryptic ad online for a private investigator: “Need help, but can’t contact the police?” That’s where Kouplan comes in. He’s an Iranian refugee living in hiding. He was forced to leave Iran after news of his and his brother's involvement with a radical newspaper hated by the regime was discovered. Kouplan’s brother disappeared, and he hasn’t seen him in four years. He makes a living as a P.I. working under the radar, waiting for the day he can legally apply for asylum. Pernilla’s daughter has vanished without a trace, and Kouplan is an expert at living and working off the grid. He’s the perfect PI to help... but something in Pernilla’s story doesn’t add up. She might need help that he can’t offer...and a little girl’s life hangs in the balance.

Trump: The Art of the Deal

Author: Donald J. Trump
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307575330
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
President Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work—a firsthand account of the rise of America’s foremost deal-maker. “I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”—Donald J. Trump Here is Trump in action—how he runs his organization and how he runs his life—as he meets the people he needs to meet, chats with family and friends, clashes with enemies, and challenges conventional thinking. But even a maverick plays by rules, and Trump has formulated time-tested guidelines for success. He isolates the common elements in his greatest accomplishments; he shatters myths; he names names, spells out the zeros, and fully reveals the deal-maker’s art. And throughout, Trump talks—really talks—about how he does it. Trump: The Art of the Deal is an unguarded look at the mind of a brilliant entrepreneur—the ultimate read for anyone interested in the man behind the spotlight. Praise for Trump: The Art of the Deal “Trump makes one believe for a moment in the American dream again.”—The New York Times “Donald Trump is a deal maker. He is a deal maker the way lions are carnivores and water is wet.”—Chicago Tribune “Fascinating . . . wholly absorbing . . . conveys Trump’s larger-than-life demeanor so vibrantly that the reader’s attention is instantly and fully claimed.”—Boston Herald “A chatty, generous, chutzpa-filled autobiography.”—New York Post

On the Technicality of a Lie

Author: Indey Cruz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
This Book Opens the Door to The Mind, So That Mind Can Start to Think Outside the Box. It Is Not A Story That You Are Reading. It Is Not Something Educational. I'm Definitely Not Something You May Agree With. It Is Merely Something That Would Show You A Different Way. After Reading This Book, It Will Take Some Time for Your Mind to Adjust to What You Have Just Read. For That Reason, You Need to Give Yourself Some Time for Your Mind to Catch Up. Should You Want to Speed This Process Up, I Would Advise Meditation. After All A Relax Mindset Absorbs and Processes Information More Efficiently. The Art of Lying Without Lying, It Is A Collection of Life Interactions Which Explains Through Examples How Effective Play on Words Can Be. Sometimes We Want to Do the Right Thing for The Wrong Reason Because We Believe It Is Right for Whatever Reason. However, Due to Societal Reasons and Beliefs, We Sometimes Tend Not to Act on Things Because Of The Implications That Are Involved in Doing Something Wrong. This Book Just Opens the Door and Shows You How to Bend the Grey Area of Truth to You Advantage. Sometimes it Is Good, And Sometimes We Regret the Decisions that Have Been Made. But It Is Those Mistakes That We Make Through Doing Things Wrong That Bring Us to The Right Places Where We Need to Be. It's Not A Perfect World, Because Past Perfection Never Is Achieved. Subsequently, It May Is A Perfect World with Mistakes; although Perfection Can't Be Controlled, Mistakes Can Be. In Terms of Making Them Wrongly, Or Rightly Depending on Your Perception.Some of Us, Just Don't Want to Stop Lying; Hence, We Are Merely Giving You the Way to Lie Without Lying.

The Art of Lying

Author: Adolf Hitler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46

Book Description