37.2468, Books: The Language of Love Fraud: Faber (2026)

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Subject: 37.2468, Books: The Language of Love Fraud: Faber (2026)

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Date: 22-Jul-2026
From: Odelia Ahdout [odelia.ahdout at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: The Language of Love Fraud: Faber (2026)


Title: The Language of Love Fraud
Series Title: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9783112217849/html

Author(s): Pamela Faber

Abstract:

This study applies Fillmore’s Frame Semantics and corpus linguistics
to analyze love fraud. It demonstrates the stages of the event as well
as the words and phrases used to activate each frame and cause the
victim to love and trust the fraudster. The fraudster thus constructs
a romantic relationship with the victim, solely through language. This
relationship begins with friendship, progresses to ‘soulmateship’ and
engagement, and finally ends in an online ‘marriage’. Since one word
can activate an entire frame, it is the fraudster’s lexical choices
that cause the victim to ignore the imperfectly written messages and
blinds them to the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic errors in the
texts.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science




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