APA 6th Edition Blečić, M. (2019). Shakespeare’s Iago as a Counter-Example to the Traditional Definition of Lying. Filozofska istraživanja, 39 (4), 827-851. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406
MLA 8th Edition Blečić, Martina. "Shakespeare’s Iago as a Counter-Example to the Traditional Definition of Lying." Filozofska istraživanja, vol. 39, br. 4, 2019, str. 827-851. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406. Citirano 27.01.2021.
Chicago 17th Edition Blečić, Martina. "Shakespeare’s Iago as a Counter-Example to the Traditional Definition of Lying." Filozofska istraživanja 39, br. 4 (2019): 827-851. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406
Harvard Blečić, M. (2019). 'Shakespeare’s Iago as a Counter-Example to the Traditional Definition of Lying', Filozofska istraživanja, 39(4), str. 827-851. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406
Vancouver Blečić M. Shakespeare’s Iago as a Counter-Example to the Traditional Definition of Lying. Filozofska istraživanja [Internet]. 2019 [pristupljeno 27.01.2021.];39(4):827-851. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406
IEEE M. Blečić, "Shakespeare’s Iago as a Counter-Example to the Traditional Definition of Lying", Filozofska istraživanja, vol.39, br. 4, str. 827-851, 2019. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406
APA 6th Edition Blečić, M. (2019). Shakespeareov Jago kao protuprimjer tradicionalnoj definiciji laži. Filozofska istraživanja, 39 (4), 827-851. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406
MLA 8th Edition Blečić, Martina. "Shakespeareov Jago kao protuprimjer tradicionalnoj definiciji laži." Filozofska istraživanja, vol. 39, br. 4, 2019, str. 827-851. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406. Citirano 27.01.2021.
Chicago 17th Edition Blečić, Martina. "Shakespeareov Jago kao protuprimjer tradicionalnoj definiciji laži." Filozofska istraživanja 39, br. 4 (2019): 827-851. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406
Harvard Blečić, M. (2019). 'Shakespeareov Jago kao protuprimjer tradicionalnoj definiciji laži', Filozofska istraživanja, 39(4), str. 827-851. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406
Vancouver Blečić M. Shakespeareov Jago kao protuprimjer tradicionalnoj definiciji laži. Filozofska istraživanja [Internet]. 2019 [pristupljeno 27.01.2021.];39(4):827-851. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406
IEEE M. Blečić, "Shakespeareov Jago kao protuprimjer tradicionalnoj definiciji laži", Filozofska istraživanja, vol.39, br. 4, str. 827-851, 2019. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39406
Sažetak This paper aims to question the traditional definition of lying. I do not present my definition of this phenomenon. Instead, I try to show that the traditional definition – to lie one must utter a false claim – is inadequate. To do that, in the first part of the paper, I present Herbert Paul Grice’s theory of conversational implicatures, which are explicitly excluded from the traditional definition. Next, relying on the theory of default meanings, I reject the widespread idea that the speaker can always distance themselves from a pragmatically conveyed message. Then I present the traditional definition of lying and the role that the intention of the speaker and the responsibility of the hearer play in it. In the second part, I apply the insights gathered by that point to Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello. After a brief presentation of the relation between Othello and Iago, I present three examples of dialogues from the play that I consider to be the cases of lying accomplished with conversational implicatures. This kind of analysis has a dual role. The first one is to show the inadequacy of the traditional definition of lying. Even though Iago does not utter a single false claim, he is lying. The second one to point to the limited scope of the possibility of denying a pragmatically conveyed message. Iago’s pragmatic messages are so strong that he cannot distance himself from them, even when he tries to.