The language of fake news / Jack Grieve, University of Birmingham and Alan Turing Institute ; Helena Woodfield, University of Birmingham.

By:

Grieve, Jack [author.]

Contributor(s):

Grieve, Jack [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge elements. Elements in forensic linguisticsPublication details: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, c2023.Description: 77 pages : figuresISBN:

9781009349130

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LOC classification:

PN 4784 .F27 2023

Contents:

Series Preface -- Introduction -- 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Continuing Resources	NU Clark Circulation	Non-fiction	GC PN 4784 G75 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		NUCLA000005468

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Series Preface -- Introduction -- Analysing the language of fake news -- Jayson Blair and the New York Times -- Corpus -- Analysis and results.

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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