Novedad bibliográficaInfoling 5.53 (2024)

Título:Manufacturing Dissent
Subtítulo:Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis
Autor/a:Ilie, Cornelia
Año de publicación:2024
Lugar de edición:Amsterdam / Philadelphia
Editorial:John Benjamins
Descripción

Spotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in different countries and socio-political circumstances, the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics’ (misleading information and fake news), public policy mismanagement, deceptive online and offline communication tactics, and conspiracy narratives, which end up disrupting community social cohesion. In addition to targeting manipulation-driven dissent across discourse genres through corpus-based investigations, a major strength of this volume consists in debunking manipulation while foregrounding compelling acts of counter-manipulation.


 


The volume’s breadth of topics, depth of analytical insights and range of methodological frameworks provide unique perspectives by capturing crisis-related manipulations across a worldwide political and cultural spectrum (Austria, Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States), with a focus on the scale and extent of multifaceted repercussions. Reaching beyond the boundaries of pragmatics and discourse analysis, this book should be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners of rhetoric, argumentation, media studies, social and political sciences.

Temática:Análisis del discurso, Antropología lingüística, Lingüística cognitiva, Pragmática, Semántica, Técnicas de comunicación
Índice

Crisis manipulation: Discourse- and argumentation-based approaches


Cornelia Ilie

 


Part I. Crisis-driven and context-related manipulation practices



 

Chapter 1. Spanish influenza 1918/19: A diachronic and cross-cultural perspective on blame and blame-avoidance in media and politics in times of crisis


Maria Stopfner

 


Chapter 2. Manipulation in exceptional times: Exploiting overwhelming contextual parameters for manipulative purposes


Didier Maillat and Steve Oswald 


 

Chapter 3. Manipulating citizens’ beliefs and emotions: Consensus-seeking and dissensus-generating tactics in crisis management


Cornelia Ilie 


 

Chapter 4. Maintaining political authority and credibility during the Covid-19 crisis: The case of Czech government press conferences


Martina Berrocal 


 

Chapter 5. The legitimation of conspiracy theories through manipulation: The case of climate lockdowns


Massimiliano Demata 

 


Part II. Discursively and argumentatively framed counter-manipulation strategies


 

Chapter 6. How can governments be prevented from manipulating statistics about Covid-19? An example from UK politics


Cristina Marinho and Michael Billig 


 

Chapter 7. News media’s epistemological framings of the Covid-19 ‘lab leak’ hypothesis: A contrastive metapragmatic analysis of ‘conspiracy theory’


Cedric Deschrijver 


 

Chapter 8. Strategic communication in the Covid-19 pandemic: Uses of arguments and manipulative tactics in institutional social media communication


Fabrizio Macagno and Ana Carolina Trevisan 


 

Chapter 9. Lessons learned? The role of conventional arguments in avoiding blame and rebuilding trust in banking after the financial crisis


Ruth Breeze 


 

Index

ColecciónPragmatics & Beyond New Series, 339
Formato:libro impreso
Págs.:311
ISBN-13:9789027214447
Precio: 110,00 EUR      USD 110.00
ISBN-13:9789027248596
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Fecha de publicación en Infoling:5 de junio de 2024