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Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories : A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective by Marcel Danesi is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories : A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective about?
Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs. This exciting and original work is the first to apply cognitive linguistics to the analysis of political lies and conspiracy theories, both of which have flourished in the internet age and which many argue are threatening democracy. It unravels the verbal mechanisms that make these "different truths" so effective and proliferative, dissecting the verbal structures (metaphor, irony, connotative implications etc) of the words of a variety of real-life cases in the form of politicians, conspiracy theorists and influencers. Marcel Danesi goes on to demonstrate how these linguistic structures "switch on" or "switch off" alternative mind worlds. This book is essential reading for students of cognitive linguistics and will enrich the studies of any student or researcher in language and linguistics more broadly, as well as discourse analysis, rhetoric or political science.
Who reads Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories : A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Marcel Danesi
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781000891034
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology