In:The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication
Viviana Masia
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 322] 2021
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Published online: 12 May 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.322.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.322.toc
Table of contents
List of tablesXI
List of figuresXIII
AcknowledgmentsXV
Introduction1
Chapter 1.Features and functions of implicitness in verbal communication5
1.1Introduction5
1.2Implicit communication5
1.3Manipulation in language7
1.4The “design features” of implicit communication10
1.4.1Presupposition10
1.4.2Implicature15
1.4.3Topicalization21
1.4.4Vagueness24
1.5Content commitment and discourse commitment28
1.6Evolutionary perspectives30
1.7Manipulation and persuasion35
Chapter 2.Quantitative and experimental approaches to implicit and manipulative
communication39
2.1Introduction39
2.2Persuasive presuppositions39
2.3Persuasive topicalizations40
2.4Persuasive implicatures42
2.5Persuasive vagueness43
2.6Persuasive effects of presupposition, topic, implicatures and vagueness in political discourse45
2.7Experimental perspectives on the processing of implicit communication60
2.7.1Behavioral evidence60
2.7.2Neurolinguistic evidence63
2.8Explaining the manipulative impact of implicit strategies between behavioral and neurological evidence68
Chapter 3.The manipulative evidentiality of implicit communication71
3.1Introduction71
3.2Evidentiality as encoded by presumptive meanings71
3.3Evidential systems72
3.3.1The evidential value of assertion, presupposition and topic75
3.3.2The evidential value of implicature and vagueness79
3.4Presupposition, assertion and their evidential meaning in political discourse82
3.4.1Corpus86
3.4.2Predictions88
3.4.3Results89
3.4.4Discussion91
Chapter 4.Manipulation in news discourse: The function of presuppositions in the language of journalism97
4.1Introduction97
4.2News language and manipulation99
4.3Text comprehension within “good enough” perspectives on language processing101
4.4Data analysis104
4.4.1The corpus104
4.5Types of presupposed content105
4.5.1Presupposition and neutral information105
4.5.2Evaluative presuppositions107
4.5.3Presupposition and blasting109
4.5.4Presupposition and irony110
4.6Distribution of presuppositions and content types in the Italian press113
4.7Discussion117
Chapter 5.Manipulating translations121
5.1Introduction121
5.2Pragmatics in translation121
5.3Translation and manipulation124
5.3.1Translating topic and focus125
5.3.2Translating implicatures130
5.3.3Translating presuppositions135
5.3.4Translating vagueness139
5.4Towards translational criteria of implicit communication143
Chapter 6.Teaching how to detect manipulative language147
6.1Introduction147
6.2Critically reading political messages on Twitter149
6.2.1Training students to detect implicit communication153
6.3Making knowledge of implicit communication available to everybody160
6.3.1The IMPAQTS project and the OPPP! website161
6.3.2More on the OPPP! website193
6.3.3Educating to a “culture of implicitness”195
6.4Implicit communication as a way to distinguish between different text types198
6.4.1The corpus and the method198
6.4.2Results and discussion199
6.4.3Further remarks201
Conclusion203
References209
Index223
