Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century

Discourse, language, mind
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-272-2707-2
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 720 g

Reihe: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

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 analysis to semantics and cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. The book’s central concern is to provide not only a reference work with up-to-date information on the analysis of manipulation in discourse but also a number of tools for the scholar, some of them being developed within theories originally not designed to address belief-change through language interpretation. Foreword by Frans van Eemeren.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saussure, Louis de

Schulz, Peter J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften