Introduction published In: Discourses of Fake News
Edited by Scott Wright
[Journal of Language and Politics 20:5] 2021
► pp. 641–652
Introduction
Discourses of fake news
This article is available free of charge.
Published online: 7 July 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.21058.wri
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.21058.wri
Article outline
- 1.The rise of fake news: Genre and label
- 2.Why discourse of fake news?
- 3.Overview and rationale of special issue
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