In:Conspiracy Theory Discourses
Edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 98] 2022
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Published online: 1 December 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.98.toc
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Table of contents
AcknowledgementsIX
Chapter 1.Conspiracy theory discourses: Critical inquiries into the language of anti-science, post-trutherism, mis/disinformation and alternative media1
Massimiliano Demata
Virginia Zorzi
Angela Zottola
Part I.Conspiracy theories: Epistemological questions
Chapter 2.A corpus-driven exploration of conspiracy theorising as a discourse type: Lexical indicators of argumentative patterning25
Paola Catenaccio
Chapter 3.Is my mobile phone listening to me? Conspiratorial thinking, digital literacies, and everyday encounters with surveillance49
Rodney H. Jones
Chapter 4.“Go ahead and ‘debunk’ truth by calling it a conspiracy theory”: The discursive construction of conspiracy theoryness in online affinity spaces71
Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
Chapter 5.“You want me to be wrong”: Expert ethos, (de-)legitimation, and ethotic straw men as discursive resources for conspiracy theories99
Thierry Herman
Steve Oswald
Chapter 6.Fake conspiracy: Trump’s anti-Chinese ‘COVID-19-as-war’ scenario121
Musolff Andreas
Part II.Conspiracy theory-related communicative phenomena
Chapter 7.Exploring the echo chamber concept: A linguistic perspective143
Marina Bondi
Leonardo Sanna
Chapter 8.“If you can’t see the pattern here, there’s something wrong”: A cognitive account of conspiracy narratives, schemas, and the construction of the ‘expert’169
Jessica Mason
Chapter 9.Complementary concepts of disinformation: Conspiracy theories and ‘fake news’193
Philip Seargeant
Chapter 10.COVID-19 conspiracy theories as affective discourse215
Carmen Lee
Part III.Social media and conspiracy theories
Chapter 11.The ID2020 conspiracy theory in YouTube video comments during COVID-19: Bonding around religious, political, and technological discourses241
Olivia Inwood
Michele Zappavigna
Chapter 12.#conspiracymemes: A framework-based analysis of conspiracy memes as digital multimodal units and ensuing user reactions on Instagram267
Derya Gür-Şeker
Ute K. Boonen
Michael Wentker
Chapter 13.The new world order on Twitter: Evaluative language in English and Spanish Tweets295
Natalia Mora López
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 discussions319
Liljana Mitkovska
Fevzudina Saračević
Chapter 15.Ideologies and the representation of identities in anti-vaccination conspiracy theories: A critical discourse analysis of the MMR vaccine-autism debate343
Carlotta Fiammenghi
Chapter 16.Collective identities in the online self-representation of conspiracy theorists: The cases of climate change denial, ‘Deep State’ and ‘Big Pharma’365
Virginia Zorzi
Part V.Political and international dimensions of conspiracy theories
Chapter 17.Anti-Sorosism: Reviving the “Jewish world conspiracy”395
John E. Richardson
Ruth Wodak
Chapter 18.“These cameras won’t show the crowds”: Intradiscursive intertextuality in Trumpian discourse’s crowd size conspiracy theory421
Kelsey Campolong
Chapter 19.From strategic depiction of conspiracies to conspiracy theories: RT’s and Sputnik’s representations of coronavirus infodemic443
Mari-Liis Madisson
Andreas Ventsel
Chapter 20.“Gender ideology” and the discursive infrastructure of a transnational conspiracy theory465
Angela Zottola
Rodrigo Borba
Epilogue.Beyond discourse theory in the conspiratorial mode? The critical issue of truth in the age of post-truth489
Johannes Angermuller
Notes on contributors
Index495
