Jessica Mason

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jessica Mason is involved.

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Intertextuality in Practice

Jessica Mason

The books we’ve read, the films we’ve seen, the stories we’ve heard - and just as importantly the ones we haven’t – form an integral part of our identity. Recognising a reference to a text can result in feelings of pleasure, expertise and even smugness; being lost as to a reference’s possible… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 33] 2019. xi, 204 pp.

Articles

Mason, Jessica 2022 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’ Conspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 169–192 | Chapter

This chapter will adopt a data-driven, cognitive stylistic approach, exploring ‘false flag’ conspiracy theories about mass shootings, specifically the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, which claimed the lives of twenty children and six adults. ‘False flags’ are a sub-type of conspiracy theory where… read more

Mason, Jessica 2019 Making fiction out of fact: Attention and belief in the discourse of conspiracy Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling, Browse, Sam, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara (eds.), pp. 293–312 | Article

This article explores fictionality within the context of the discourse of conspiracy. In particular it examines the phenomenon of ‘false flag’ narratives: alternative versions of an event constructed by individuals who have become convinced that a news story has in fact been staged for… read more