TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grieve,Jack
AU  - Woodfield,Helena
TI  - The language of fake news
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in forensic linguistics,
SN  - 9781009349161 (ebook)
AV  - PN4784.F27 G75 2023
U1  - 070.43 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Blair, Jayson
KW  - Fake news
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Style
KW  - English language
KW  - Discourse analysis
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Mar 2023); Analysing the language of fake news -- Jayson Blair and the New York Times -- Corpus -- Analysis and results; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009349161
ER  -