Publications

Journal papers and book chapters

Orr Shirly (2025), "Truth Evaluators: A different point of view on the lying/misleading distinction" in Wiegmann, A. “Lying, Fake News, and Bullshit” in the Bloomsbury series “Advances in Experimental Philosophy”. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350377837.ch-5

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Orr Shirly, Mira Ariel and Einat Shetreet (2024), “Scales and Inferences”. Language and Cognition.  https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2024.36

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Orr Shirly, and Mira Ariel (2021), "Predicating Truth: An empirically based analysis". Journal of Pragmatics 185, pp. 131-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.09.005

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Or(r) Shirly, Mira Ariel, and Orna Peleg (2017), “The Case of Literally True Propositions with False Implicatures.” In Deception: Motivations, Recognition Techniques and Behavioral Control, edited by Innocent Chiluwa. New York:

Nova Science Publishers. pp. 67–108. [LINK]

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Work in progress

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Alex Wiegmann, Louisa Reins, Masaharu Mizumoto, Alejandro Erut, Qilin Li, and Shirly Orr (submitted). The Role of Implicit Content for Lie and Truth Judgments: A Cross-Cultural Study. [Preprint]

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Orr Shirly, Mira Ariel, and Einat Shetreet (under review), “Scalar networks and the dynamics of contrast: A Saussarian/Spinozian perspective on scalar implicatures” [Preprint]

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Orr Shirly, Edmundo Kronmüller, and Einat Shetreet (in preparation), “Hedging the Truth: The role of explicit content in shaping truth evaluations”​​

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Orr Shirly, Edmundo Kronmüller, and Einat Shetreet (February 2025), “Truth in Context: A step closer to understanding the ordinary concept of lying”. ISCOP 2025, The 11th Israeli Conference on Cognition Research, Akko, Israel. (Talk)

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Orr Shirly (August 2024), “The Patterns of Deception: The lying/misleading distinction from the perspective of truth evaluators”. 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2024), Helsinki, Finland. (Talk)

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Orr Shirly (June 2024), “The lying/misleading distinction from the viewpoint of truth evaluators”. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 3 (ELM3), University of Pennsylvania, USA. [Online Short-Talk]

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Orr shirly, Mira Ariel and Einat Shetreet (September 2023), “Scalar structures cannot impose semantic meaning”. The 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics, Paris, France. [Poster]

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Orr shirly, Mira Ariel and Einat Shetreet (September 2022), “Scalar diversity, boundedness, and subjectivity”. XPrag 2022, Pavia, Italy. [Poster]

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Alex Wiegmann, Louisa Reins, Mizumoto Masaharu, Alejandro Suleman Erut, Shirly Orr and Qilin Li (September 2022), “The impact of implicit content on lie and truth judgements”. The 2nd European Experimental Philosophy Conference, Granada, Spain. [Talk]

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Orr Shirly (January 2022), "Truth and Agreement", EXTRA colloquium at Ruhr university [Zoom Talk].

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Orr Shirly (January 2022), “The natural use of Truth in interaction”, Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) colloquium, UCSB University, USA [Zoom Talk].

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Orr Shirly (October 2021), “Predicating truth: an empirically based analysis.” Cambridge Semantics, Pragmatics and Philosophy Research Group, Cambridge University, UK. [Zoom Talk].

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Orr Shirly (July 2021), “Truth and Agreement: Converging evidence from discourse, grammar and etymology”. 5th Usage-Based Linguistics (UBL) Conference, Tel Aviv University [Poster] (link)

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Orr Shirly (July 2020), “The subjective and intersubjective facets of Truth: a usage-based investigation”. International Workshop on Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity: The Pragmatic Perspective, Vercelli, Italy (Cancelled due to COVID-19) [Talk]

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Orr Shirly, Mira Ariel, and Orna Peleg (July 2017), “The Case of Literally True Propositions with False Implicatures” The 5th International Conference for Graduate students on Diverse Linguistics (IGDAL), Tel-Aviv, Israel. [Poster]