Title: Valóban könnyebb utolérni a hazug embert, mint a sánta kutyát? A hazugság fogalmának értelmezése magyar nyelvhasználók körében: egy kérdőíves vizsgálat eredményei
Abstract: This paper aims to explore (1) what order of elements of a prototypical lie proposed by Coleman and Kay (1981) has been shown by Hungarians' conception of lying from the point of view of importance, (2) whether the intention to deceive is the most important element of lying in Hungarian language use as the previous literature suggested, and (3) how confident Hungarian language users are in their judgements and whether there are any factors determining Hungarians' judgements of lie.To fulfil our goal we repeated Coleman and Kay's experiment with 120 Hungarian native speakers.On the basis of our results it can be established that the order of the prototypical elements of lying in Hungarian language use is the following: belief that the proposition is false intention to deceiveobjective falsity and, consequently, belief has been proved as the most important element.The informants were rather confident in their judgements.There were problems only in situations where withholding information, half-truth and evasive responses occurred.Relevance/irrelevance considerations played a role in judgements of such situations.