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Author Grieve, Jack, author

Title The language of fake news / Jack Grieve, University of Birmingham and Alan Turing Institute ; Helena Woodfield, University of Birmingham
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cambridge elements. Elements in forensic linguistics
Cambridge elements. Elements in forensic linguistics
Contents Analysing the language of fake news -- Jayson Blair and the New York Times -- Corpus -- Analysis and results
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Blair, Jayson -- Language
SUBJECT Blair, Jayson fast
Subject Fake news -- Case studies
Language and languages -- Style -- Case studies
English language -- Discourse analysis -- Case studies
English language -- Discourse analysis
Fake news
Language and languages
Language and languages -- Style
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Woodfield, Helena, author
LC no. 2023011574
ISBN 9781009349161
1009349163