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Conspiracy as Genre: Narrative, Power and Circulation

by Catherine Tebaldi
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781350467873
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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  • Pages: 296
  • Original Price: GBP 95.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / Sociolinguistics

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. 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. The first section offers semiotic and narrative analyses of the language of conspiracy as a genre. The second part 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. The third section 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, Luxembourg, Russia and the USA.

Milani, Tommaso M.: - Tommaso M. Milani is George C. and Jane G. Greer Professor and Head of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Plum, Alistair: - Alistair Plum is a postdoctoral researcher at the Culture and Computation Lab at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Purschke, Christoph: - Christoph Purschke is Head of the Culture and Computation Lab and Professor in Computational Linguistics at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Tebaldi, Catherine: - Catherine Tebaldi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Culture and Computation Lab at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

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