Cornelia Ilie. 2024. Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and Counter-Manipulation Strategies in Times of Crisis.

Title: Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and Counter-Manipulation Strategies in Times of Crisis
Editor: Cornelia Ilie
Publisher: John Benjamins (Amsterdam)
Year: 2024

Cornelia Ilie. 2024. Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and Counter-Manipulation Strategies in Times of Crisis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.339

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.

Cornelia Ilie. 2021. Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures.

Title: Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures
Editor: Cornelia Ilie
Publisher: John Benjamins (Amsterdam)
Year: 2021

Book information 

This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively researched ones: South-Korean talk shows, Japanese interviews, Chinese news interviews, police-civilian interactions in the USA, Italian interviews and courtroom examinations, Japanese parliamentary debates and Prime Minister’s Questions in the UK Parliament. More