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A corpus-based investigation into verbal cues to deception and their sociolinguistic distribution ...
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Research from psychology has shown that there are significant differences between the language of a truth teller and a liar, and investigating these differences in more detail may point towards cues to deception. However, the sociolinguistic nature of these cues has never been fully investigated. After collecting data from an experimental setting, this thesis uses corpus-based methods to investigate how cues vary across social groups. The thesis starts with an overview of the verbal deception detection literature, before describing a data collection experiment that included four interviews: a truthful and deceptive description of two scenarios. The first scenario (based on the work of Porter and Yuille, 1996) was designed to mimic a police interrogation. The second scenario (based on the work of Warmelink et al., 2012) was designed as a mock border control interview. The transcriptions of these interviews formed the 125,473-word corpus, with truthful language accounting for 60,823 words, and deceptive ...
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corpus linguistics; deception; deception detection; sociolinguistics
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1324
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