34.3166, Books: The Language of Fake News: Grieve, Woodfield (2023)

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Date: 13-Oct-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Language of Fake News: Grieve, Woodfield (2023)


Title: The Language of Fake News
Series Title: Elements in Forensic Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781009349130

author: Jack Grieve
author: Helena Woodfield
Paperback: ISBN: 9781009349130 Price: U.S. $ 22.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781009349130 Price: U.K. £ 17.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781009349130 Price: Europe EURO 19.84
Abstract:

In this Element, the authors introduce and apply a framework for the
linguistic analysis of fake news. They define fake news as news that
is meant to deceive as opposed to inform and argue that there should
be systematic differences between real and fake news that reflect this
basic difference in communicative purpose. The authors consider one
famous case of fake news involving Jayson Blair of The New York Times,
which provides them with the opportunity to conduct a controlled study
of the effect of deception on the language of a single reporter
following this framework. Through a detailed grammatical analysis of a
corpus of Blair's real and fake articles, this Element demonstrates
that there are clear differences in his writing style, with his real
news exhibiting greater information density and conviction than his
fake news. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge
Core.

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)

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