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Becoming effective hunters of manipulative communicative moves is far from an easy capacity to develop. This book aims at offering a guide to the most dangerous traps of deceptive language as triggered by implicit communication strategies such as presupposition, implicature, topicalization and vague expressions. A look at different contexts of language use highlights some of the most remarkable implications of using indirect speech and of how it affects the correct comprehension of a message. Within the remit of communication and pragmatics studies, this work marks an advancement in the direction of delving into the linguistic manifestations of manipulative discourse, its most common contexts of use and the educational paths that can be undertaken to master it in everyday interactions.

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This is genuinely an interdisciplinary book, full of insights and careful analysis, very informative, clearly written and all the epigraphs are wisely selected. [...] Masia's book is a great achievement, in which both a humanistic approach and scientific endeavor are perfectly balanced. It is a book full of insights, and more importantly, it challenges us conceptually and methodologically. It incorporates various disciplines, that use different methods of analysis; and above all, shows that the author perfectly knows where the limits are, and where some further investigations could continue. Masia has not only shown a high degree of expertise, but also a genuine cooperative spirit in writing it. -- Cristian Santibanez, Universidad Catolica de la Santisima de Concepcion, Chile, in Journal of Pragmatics 200 (2022).

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