Manufacturing Dissent
Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis#
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
Strömstad Academy, Sweden#
Explore the recent publication by Prof. Cornelia Ilie (Editor), newly elected member of the Linguistic Studies section of Academia Europaea.
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 corpusbased 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.
Publisher: John Benjamins
Published online: January 2024
ISBN: 9789027214447
E-book: ISBN 9789027248596
About Cornelia Ilie#
, Sweden, Visiting Professor at Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece, and Professor Emerita at Swami Vivekananda University, Kolkata, India. Previously she was Professor at Örebro University and Malmö University, Sweden. She was research fellow at Lancaster University, UK and research scholar at U.C. Berkeley, US, and held visiting professorships at universities in Austria, Finland, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain, and the UK. Her research, which is internationally anchored and largely interdisciplinary, spans five main areas: institutional and organisational discourse analysis, political and parliamentary discourse practices, intercultural communication, dialogue argumentation and rhetoric, and gender in communities of practice. She has published extensively on media discourse genres, academic writing genres, political discourse patterns, argumentation and rhetoric of parliamentary debate strategies, gender and (im)politeness in parliamentary discourse practices.
