Massimiliano Demata : The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research into discourses of disinformation, misinformation, post-truth, alternative facts, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and "fake news". Divided into two sections, it provides a detailed look at the methodological challenges and approaches for studying disinformation, along with a wide range of case studies covering everything from climate change denial to COVID-19 conspiracies. The studies address how discourses of disinformation are constructed and developed, what rhetorical and persuasive strategies they employ, how disinformation can be discerned from real news, and what steps we might take in order to create a more trustworthy news environment. Authored by leading experts from around the world, and showcasing the most up-to-date methodological approaches to the topic, the volume makes a significant contribution to current linguistic research on politics, and is an essential guide to the discourses of disinformation for advanced students and researchers of English language studies, linguistics, and media and communication studies.

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  Routledge
• Author(s)

  Massimiliano Demata is Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Catania. He took his DPhil in English from the University of Oxford in 1999 and was a Fulbright scholar in Yale (1999) and Indiana University (2014). He has held Visiting Professorships/Lectureships at Saarland University (2020), Sciences Po Lyon (2021), OTH Regensburg (2022), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2022) and Sciences Po Bordeaux (2023). He is the editor of the Journal of Language and Discrimination, published by the University of Toronto Press. His research interests include populism, conspiracy theory discourses, Trump’s rhetoric, metaphors of the nation, and social media.
  He was a 2023 Fellow at the Collegium de Lyon.

  Stefania M. Maci is Full Professor of English Language at the University of Bergamo.

   

  Mark McGlashan is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the Birmingham Institute of Media and English, Birmingham City University.

   

  Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Open University.