33.225, FYI: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering

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Subject: 33.225, FYI: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering

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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 06:20:24
From: Chris Shei [c-c.shei at swansea.ac.uk]
Subject: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering

 
The Routledge handbook of language and mind engineering aims to bring together
a collection of groundbreaking essays on mind engineering (alternatively
called mind control, brainwashing, cognitive manipulation, and so on) in
today’s society in all walks of life. The handbook explores the anatomy of
mind engineering technique by scrutinizing it from linguistic, media and
technology, and psychological perspectives. Proposals of chapters are
solicitated in the following areas in the form of a tentative chapter title
and an abstract of no less than 300 words. For your reference, two chapter
names already admitted are given below in relevant sections. 

Mind engineering theory
(Brainwashing in literary and historical contexts, The theory and philosophy
of mind engineering)
- Brainwashing in Cold War Fiction and Film
- Bernays to Big Data: From the Engineering of Consent to the Engineering of
the Mind

Political mind engineering
(Patriotic education and nationalism, Propaganda, censorship, prosecution and
murder, Humiliation, threat, superiority, collective goods, world peace)
- Creating Model Chinese Youth in X-Change: A Multimodal Legitimation Analysis
- Patriotic and nationalistic discourse in sociological field in China in the
context of social management ideas

Mind engineering in business and industry
(Media advertisements, Email or phone scams, Social media manipulation and
game addiction)
- The Benefit of the Doubt: How Big Oil Made Us Think
- Collective narratives in workplaces: from identity work to a form of mind
shaping

Mind engineering in other domains
(Religious brainwashing, Gender inequality, Family and ethnic mind
engineering, Culture as mind engineering tool, The rule of law)
- Of Maidens, Stars and the Blue of Night: A Critical Approach to
Understanding Extremist Recruitment through Songs and Dreams
- Empowering women in social media discourse

Linguistic aspect of mind engineering
(Linguistic analysis of mind engineering publications, Analyzing patriotic and
nationalistic discourse, authoritarian documents and speeches, Sociolinguistic
or Psycholinguistics aspect of mind engineering)
- The metapragmatics of political mind engineering in Chinese official
discourse: Steering the pendulum between authoritarian and totalitarian
discourse modes
- Linguistic Characteristics and Strategies of Mind Engineering: Evidence from
Political, Nationalist, and Pro-China Discourse

Psychological aspect of mind engineering
(The malleability and manipulability of the human mind, The neurological basis
of mind engineering, The use of logical fallacies and outright deception in
mind engineering)
- Designing Mental Wellness Therapies Using Mind Engineering Techniques
- Language Corruption in a Blended Space: A Cognitive Linguistic Account

Please email your proposal with proposed chapter title, abstract and the
name(s) and affiliation(s) of the proposed author(s) to both editors’ email
addresses below:

Dr Chris Shei: c-c.shei at swansea.ac.uk 
Dr Jim Schnell: james.schnell at fulbrightmail.org  

Deadline for submitting your chapter proposal: 31 January 2022
Deadline for submitting full article if commissioned: 31 December 2022
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics





 



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