The Manipulative Disguise of Truth : : Tricks and Threats of Implicit Communication.

• Superior document: Pragmatics and Beyond New Series ; v.322
• Author: Masia, Viviana.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- The Manipulative Disguise of Truth -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Features and functions of implicitness in verbal communication -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Implicit communication: A working definition -- 1.3 Manipulation in language -- 1.4 The "design features" of implicit communication -- 1.4.1 Presupposition -- 1.4.2 Implicature -- 1.4.3 Topicalization -- 1.4.4 Vagueness -- 1.5 Content commitment and discourse commitment -- 1.6 Evolutionary perspectives -- 1.7 Manipulation and persuasion -- Chapter 2. Quantitative and experimental approaches to implicit and manipulative communication -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Persuasive presuppositions -- 2.3 Persuasive topicalizations -- 2.4 Persuasive implicatures -- 2.5 Persuasive vagueness -- 2.6 Persuasive effects of presupposition, topic, implicatures and vagueness in political discourse -- 2.7 Experimental perspectives on the processing of implicit communication -- 2.7.1 Behavioral evidence -- 2.7.2 Neurolinguistic evidence -- 2.8 Explaining the manipulative impact of implicit strategies between behavioral and neurological evidence -- Chapter 3. The manipulative evidentiality of implicit communication -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Evidentiality as encoded by presumptive meanings -- 3.3 Evidential systems: A brief overview -- 3.3.1 The evidential value of assertion, presupposition and topic -- 3.3.2 The evidential value of implicature and vagueness -- 3.4 Presupposition, assertion and their evidential meaning in political discourse -- 3.4.1 Corpus -- 3.4.2 Predictions -- 3.4.3 Results -- 3.4.4 Discussion -- Chapter 4. Manipulation in news discourse: The function of presuppositions in the language of journalism -- 4.1 Introduction.

4.2 News language and manipulation -- 4.3 Text comprehension within "good enough" perspectives on language processing -- 4.4 Data analysis: Functions of presuppositions in Italian news language -- 4.4.1 The corpus -- 4.5 Types of presupposed content -- 4.5.1 Presupposition and neutral information -- 4.5.2 Evaluative presuppositions -- 4.5.3 Presupposition and blasting -- 4.5.4 Presupposition and irony -- 4.6 Distribution of presuppositions and content types in the Italian press -- 4.7 Discussion -- Chapter 5. Manipulating translations -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Pragmatics in translation -- 5.3 Translation and manipulation -- 5.3.1 Translating topic and focus -- 5.3.2 Translating implicatures -- 5.3.3 Translating presuppositions -- 5.3.4 Translating vagueness -- 5.4 Towards translational criteria of implicit communication -- Chapter 6. Teaching how to detect manipulative language -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Critically reading political messages on Twitter -- 6.2.1 Training students to detect implicit communication: A Polish-Italian pilot study -- 6.3 Making knowledge of implicit communication available to everybody -- 6.3.1 The IMPAQTS project and the OPPP! website -- 6.3.2 More on the OPPP! website -- 6.3.3 Educating to a "culture of implicitness" -- 6.4 Implicit communication as a way to distinguish between different text types -- 6.4.1 The corpus and the method -- 6.4.2 Results and discussion -- 6.4.3 Further remarks -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.