The Language of Fake News

Author:   Jack Grieve (University of Birmingham and Alan Turing Institute) ,  Helena Woodfield (University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009349130


Pages:   75
Publication Date:   27 April 2023
Format:   Paperback
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The Language of Fake News


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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.

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Author:   Jack Grieve (University of Birmingham and Alan Turing Institute) ,  Helena Woodfield (University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.153kg
ISBN:  

9781009349130


ISBN 10:   1009349139
Pages:   75
Publication Date:   27 April 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Analysing the Language of Fake News; 3. Jayson Blair and the New York Times; 4. Corpus; 5. Analysis and Results; 6. Conclusion; References.

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