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Title Manipulation and ideologies in the twentieth century : discourse, language, mind / edited by Louis de Saussure, Peter Schulz
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) : illustrations
Series Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture, 1569-9463 ; v. 17
Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 17. 1569-9463
Contents Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Manipulation, memes and metaphors; Morpho-syntactic and textual realizations as deliberate pragmatic argumentative linguistic tools?; Towards a typology of manipulative processes; Are manipulative texts c̀oherent'?*; Manipulation and cognitive pragmatics; The role of misused concepts in manufacturing consent; Manipulation in the speeches and writings of Hitler and the NSDAP from a relevance theoretic point of view
Summary This book is a collection of 12 papers dealing with manipulation and ideology in the 20th century, mostly with reference to political speeches by the leaders of major totalitarian regimes, but also addressing propaganda within contemporary right-wing populism and western ideological rhetoric. This book aims at bringing together researchers in the field of ideology reproduction in order to better understand the underlying mechanisms of speaker-favourable belief inculcation through language use. The book covers a wide range of theoretical perspectives, from psychosocial approaches and discourse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Discourse analysis -- Political aspects
Pragmatics.
Psycholinguistics.
Thought and thinking.
Ideology.
Manipulative behavior.
Psycholinguistics
Thinking
Handling, Psychological
pragmatics.
psycholinguistics.
thinking.
ideology.
REFERENCE.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects
Ideology
Manipulative behavior
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Thought and thinking
Form Electronic book
Author Saussure, Louis de.
Schulz, Peter, 1958-
ISBN 9789027294029
902729402X
1282156314
9781282156319