Lexical means which indicate the (in)credibility of media contents (a psycholinguistic experiment)

Abstract

In reference to the frequent breach of Paul Grice's maxim about truth, this article seeks answers to the questions: do Bulgarians recognize unreliable information in the media and what is the role of linguistic means in the process of interpreting the truth of the media contents? It discusses the results of an experiment aimed at verifying the roles of three groups of language expressions in forming a sense of credibility or unreliability of journalistic information among recipients.