The Language used in Lying

The Language used in lying 
by Rhea Fitzpatrick

I think we can all read this and admit we have all lied in our life time, but just how obvious in our language is it when we lie? This blog will tell you how the change in your speech pattern can be detected when people are lying.

Gary Pearlman is a well known man for his webpages on how to to detect a liar. Gary Pearlman's webpage I felt was the best source I found Pearlman shows us the difference in our speech patterns and language . 

Firstly a liar may leave out pronouns for example 'I' or 'ME' which are key parts in a persons speech and they will speak in a monotonous tone. When a truthful statement is made the pronoun is emphasized as much or more than the rest of the words in a statement.They will explore the topic further and will have much more longer answers but with lack of detail. Which show the Maxis theory of where a liar will have a large quantity of words but no quality in the answers or any relevance. Words may be garbled and spoken softly, and syntax and grammar may be off. 

Also a liar will use contradiction for example "It wasn't me" instead of "it was not me", and a statement with a contraction is more likely to be true.

Speech hesitations, pausing, throat clearing, or other stalling techniques may indicate that a person is hiding the truth.
There is also the "um" filler sound, as well as the different hedges like "you know," can be indicating a lie. A liar will use these techniques repeatedly. Liars' voices can become more tense or high-pitched. The extra effort needed to remember what they've already said and to keep their stories consistent may cause liars to restrain their movements and fill their speech with pauses and mispronounce words. People shading the truth tend to make fewer speech errors than truth tellers do, and they rarely backtrack to fill in forgotten or incorrect details.

Liars use repetition a lot and keep repeating the question or they will put the question in the answer for example "did you eat the last cookie" - "no did you eat the last cookie?" this is a way to then turn the question around so the liar is interrogating.   

Other different techniques like using sarcasm or humour to avoid the the truth. By using these types of techniques they will draw the person asking the question to another subject and so the liar is then out of the conversation. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrAIErNcAeo this is a URL link to a video on How to tell if someone is lying - speech.

Overall the speech patterns and the change in language can help detect a liar, and that we use fillers to leaving out pronouns and even turning round the question to someone else.