@article{2018,title={ANALYSIS of VERACITY in LANGUAGE through PRAGMATIC METHODS: LIE DETECTION in CHILD ABUSE COURT HEARINGS},abstractNode={In 2008, the US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) defined sexual abuse as “Contacting with the purpose of having sexual pleasure or economic benefit, molesting verbally or actually, having sexual intercourse with an under-aged person, screening the child pornographically, exposure, incest relationship and some other sexually expletive treatments”. Sexual abuse means to be exposed to an undesired behaviour, sexual claims and propensities by the abuser. It is accepted as a major offense, as it involves abuse and forced detention of a person. Since it involves mainly the oral re-enactment of an abusive incident in front of a court, a lot of the time judges and jury members are confronted with only the suspect’s vs. victim’s statements, that is, sometimes they are confined to make decisions without the presence of any witness statements. This immediately raises the question as to whether it is possible to detect falsified statements based on pragmatic methods. This study therefore aims to analyse sexual abuse statements recorded in court hearings, as provided by a solicitor. For this purpose, statements of each interrogated individual were transcribed and analysed manually based on Gricean Maxims, i.e. in terms of maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of relevance, and maxim of manner. Results of the analyses revealed that each individual violated one or the other Gricean Maxims at some stage in their statements. This demonstrates that pragmatically Gricean Maxims can indeed serve veracity in language, ie. lie detection, and in revealing falsified statements.},author={Burcu İlkay KARAMAN-- Merve ALSAN},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}