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.