36.2809, Books: Conspiracy as Genre: Tebaldi, Plum, and Purschke (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 17-Sep-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Conspiracy as Genre: Tebaldi, Plum, and Purschke (eds.) (2025)


Title: Conspiracy as Genre
Subtitle: Narrative, Power, and Circulation
Series Title: Advances in Sociolinguistics
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/conspiracy-as-genre-9781350467873/

Editor(s): Catherine Tebaldi, Alistair Plum, and Christoph Purschke

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350467873, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

>From anti-vaccine politics to aliens, this volume explores diverse
critical approaches to conspiracy narratives representing them as
playful stories with serious ideologies and effects.
It examines conspiracy in relation to social power and authority,
moving beyond either disinformation or revelation. In addition, it
looks at how the genre of conspiracy is the performance of questioning
authority to produce new forms of expertise which frequently stabilize
existing power hierarchies.
Across three parts, the book theorizes how conspiracy narratives are
told, what they do in the social world, and how they circulate these
social meanings. Part One offers semiotic and narrative analyses of
the language of conspiracy as a genre. Part Two examines the social
effects of these narratives, arguing that elite conspiracy is a means
to stabilize social power, looking in particular at gender-related
conspiracies around feminism, abortion and trans rights. Part Three
considers the circulation of conspiracies and the ideologies they
narrate, using unique mixed methods approaches to look at multilingual
data in sites and communities in Brazil, Germany, and the USA.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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