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The definition of the lying is controversial among Arabic linguists. This discussion takes place around three groups. The majority, representing the first group, thinks that the lying is utterances contrary to the reality, while Naẓẓām (d. 231/845) and his followers in the second group argue that the lying is utterances contrary to the faith of the informant. The third and final group formed by al-Jāhiẓ (d. 255/869) and those who followed him combines the opinion of the majority and Naẓẓām, believes that the lying is utterances that is not agreed with the reality and is contrary to the faith of the informant. In this article, these opinions are firstly subjected to semiotic analysis, and then it is discussed whether they fully carry the nature of the concept of the lying. C. S. Peirce (1839-1914), who handles abstract concepts as signs by examining linguistic and non-linguistic signs, has developed an analysis method that takes into account the semiotic elements such as the object they point to, the types of interpretant and the ground. Peirce’s semiotics will be preferred in practice because it is more suitable for concept analysis and gives the terms of semiotics. In this study, a short information about Peirce semiotics is conveyed in the introduction, and then the definitions brought by Arabic linguists to the lying will be given in the first chapter. In the second chapter, the question of how sufficient the linguists’ definitions of lying are to carry out the essence of the concept will be answered by subjecting the definition of lying to semiotic analysis.

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