Our slides from #BICLCE2024 are now available:

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https://www.academia.edu/124242293/The_language_of_persuasion_in_fake_news_BICLCE_2024_September_2024_Alicante_Spain_?source=swp_share

#Propaganda writers employ a wide range of #persuasion techniques to convince their audiences, from directive illocutionary force (e.g., ask yourself WHY...), false presuppositions (... WHY they're [the Democrats] *still* pushing fear and death), evaluative language ('fear' and 'death'), etc.

Many of them mirror the techniques used in #clickbait headlines.

We're writing up the 📝 now! #linguistics #corpuslinguistics

Let's keep the BICLCE ball/wheel rolling!

#BICLCE2024

This week Nele and Silje are at the so-called 🚴 conference (kidding, BICLCE conference) on the #linguistics of contemporary #English 😎

We're presenting about #persuasion, #propaganda and #fakenews, and of interest to the linguists will be *how* persuasion in propaganda works on the level of #language.

Think false presuppositions/implicatures, explicit directive speech acts, evaluative language, etc.

Follow along 🚶 to know more!

#BICLCE2024