Pragmatic deviation: the means of presenting lie in discourse
The article deals with the problem of false statements. The authors approach this problem from the point of view of discourse-analysis and treat false statements as pragmatic deviation which, in their opinion, is the discrepancy between the meaning of the statement and the communicative situation. Analyzing different variants of presenting lie in discourse and using specific cases, the authors show how false statements are constructed at all stages of text formation. They give a detailed description of frames, strategies and speech acts used in forming false statements. The combination of speech material and its graphic design forms the image of a false statement which misleads and manipulates the recipient in accordance with the creator's aim