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Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories - A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective (Paperback)
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Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories - A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective (Paperback)
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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.
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