基于言实关系的白谎语义类型

Three Semantic Categories of White Lies —— On the Basis of the Relation between Speech Information and Reality

界定白谎的充分条件是说谎者自认为提供了假信息。是否真的提供了假信息,判断根据乃是该信息是否背离客观实际。根据白谎所提供的信息与客观实际的对应关系,可将白谎大别为三种语义类型,即:a.可能为真;b.多数为假;c.亦假亦真。

White lies exist everywhere. The sufficient but unnecessary condition of defining a white lie is the falsehood of its proposition from the perspective of the speaker,which is not necessarily in accordance with the real falsehood contrary to the fact. Based on the relationship between the sem anticvalue and reality,the hypothesis of triple semantic categories of white lies is put forward — 'possibly true','mostly false','half false and half true'. The second category is a white lie in its narrow sense.