This bestselling introductory textbook examines the relationship between politicians, the press and the public through the language they employ. It is now fully revised with new material on delegitimisation, ‘fake news’, disinformation, (self-)censorship, ‘conspiracy theories’ and ‘Zombie’ narratives.
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Alan Partington has been Professor of English Linguistics at the Universities of Camerino and Bologna, Italy, at the School of Political Science and the Department for Interpreters and Translators. He is the author of The Linguistics of Political Argument and The Linguistics of Laughter, both published by Routledge, and was the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Corpora and Discourse.
This bestselling introductory textbook examines the relationship between politicians, the press and the public through the language they employ. It is now fully revised with new material on delegitimisation, ‘fake news’, disinformation, (self-)censorship, ‘conspiracy theories’ and ‘Zombie’ narratives.
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