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Conspiracy Theory Discourses / edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi, and Angela Zottola.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; Volume 98.
- Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture Series ; Volume 98
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conspiracy theories.
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (521 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
- Summary:
- Conspiracy Theory Discourses addresses a crucial phenomenon in the current political and communicative context: conspiracy theories. The social impact of conspiracy theories is wide-ranging and their influence on the political life of many nations is increasing. Conspiracy Theory Discourses bridges an important gap by bringing discourse-based insights to existing knowledge about conspiracy theories, which has so far developed in research areas other than Linguistics and Discourse Studies. The chapters in this volume call attention to conspiracist discourses as deeply ingrained ways to interpret reality and construct social identities. They are based on multiple, partly overlapping analytical frameworks, including Critical Discourse Analysis, rhetoric, metaphor studies, multimodality, and corpus-based, quali-quantitative approaches. These approaches are an entry point to further explore the environments which enable the proliferation of conspiracy theories, and the paramount role of discourse in furthering conspiracist interpretations of reality.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Conspiracy theory discourses
- Part I. Conspiracy theories
- Chapter 2. A corpus-driven exploration of conspiracy theorising as a discourse type
- Chapter 3. Is my mobile phone listening to me?
- Chapter 4. “Go ahead and ‘debunk’ truth by calling it a conspiracy theory”
- Chapter 5. “You want me to be wrong”
- Chapter 6. Fake conspiracy
- Part II. Conspiracy theory-related communicative phenomena
- Chapter 7. Exploring the echo chamber concept
- Chapter 8. “If you can’t see the pattern here, there’s something wrong”
- Chapter 9. Complementary concepts of disinformation
- Chapter 10. COVID-19 conspiracy theories as affective discourse
- Part III. Social media and conspiracy theories
- Chapter 11. The ID2020 conspiracy theory in YouTube video comments during COVID-19
- Chapter 12. #conspiracymemes
- Chapter 13. The New World Order on Twitter
- Part IV. Stancetaking and (de-)legitimation within conspiracy and anti-conspiracy discourses
- Chapter 14. Expressing stance towards COVID-19 conspiracy theories in Macedonian online forum discussions
- Chapter 15. Ideologies and the representation of identities in anti-vaccination conspiracy theories
- Chapter 16. Collective identities in the online self-representation of conspiracy theorists
- Part V. Political and international dimensions of conspiracy theories
- Chapter 17. Anti-Sorosism
- Chapter 18. “These cameras won’t show the crowds”
- Chapter 19. From strategic depiction of conspiracies to conspiracy theories
- Chapter 20. “Gender ideology” and the discursive infrastructure of a transnational conspiracy theory
- Epilogue. Beyond discourse theory in the conspiratorial mode?
- Notes on contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789027256959
- 9027256950
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