Michael Billig
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Billig is involved.
Journal
Book series
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
General Editor: Jo Angouri and Johann Wolfgang Unger
ISSN 1569-9463
Article
2024 Chapter 6. How can governments be prevented from manipulating statistics about Covid-19? An example from UK politics Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 186–214 | Chapter
This chapter is part of a project examining how politicians manipulate statistics and how they can be institutionally countered. We rhetorically analyse how the Chair of the United Kingdom Statistics Authority countered the Minister of Health who was manipulating the statistics for Covid-19… read more



