Name: The Language of Fake News
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009349130
Price: 226.98 HKD
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Author: Jack Grieve; Helena Woodfield
ISBN: 9781009349130

The Language of Fake News

Edited by Jack Grieve · Helena Woodfield

Cambridge University Press April 2023

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781009349130
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: April 2023
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

In this book 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, the authors demonstrates that there are clear differences in his writing style, with his real news exhibiting greater information density and conviction than his fake news.