none 10.1075/pbns.339.01sto John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 156716969 4689353 1420619 202412112241000045 10.1075 2024-12-11T16:43:25Z 2024-01-03T03:11:55Z 3 0922-842X 10.1075/pbns https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns Cornelia Ilie Strömstad Academy, Sweden https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6220-0150 Manipulation and Counter-Manipulation in Times of Crisis Spotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in different countries and socio-political circumstances, the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics’ (misleading information and fake news), public policy mismanagement, deceptive online and offline communication tactics, and conspiracy narratives, which end up disrupting community social cohesion. In addition to targeting manipulation-driven dissent across discourse genres through corpus-based investigations, a major strength of this volume consists in debunking manipulation while foregrounding compelling acts of counter-manipulation. The volume’s breadth of topics, depth of analytical insights and range of methodological frameworks provide unique perspectives by capturing crisis-related manipulations across a worldwide political and cultural spectrum (Austria, Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States), with a focus on the scale and extent of multifaceted repercussions. Reaching beyond the boundaries of pragmatics and discourse analysis, this book should be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners of rhetoric, argumentation, media studies, social and political sciences. 339 1 17 2024 1 3 2024 9789027214447 9789027248596 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/pbns.339 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027248596 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/pbns.339/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027248596.pdf Maria Stopfner University of Innsbruck https://ror.org/054pv6659 University of Innsbruck https://ror.org/054pv6659 Eurac Research Bolzano Eurac Research Bolzano https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6486-6562 A diachronic and cross-cultural perspective on blame and blame-avoidance in media and politics in times of crisis Abstract The study focuses on the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918/19, tracing the crisis coverage of two daily newspapers from two different countries, Austria and the United States, to reveal the general dynamics and manipulative potential of mediatized public discourse in times of crisis. The pragma-rhetoric analysis examines, first, which social actors gain access to the media to voice their opinion and, second, how they attempt to manipulate public perception to avoid blame, for example, by instrumentalizing certain groups as scapegoats. 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