The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation

1 The various dimensions of disinformation: an introduction
Stefania M. Maci, Massimiliano Demata, Philip Seargeant, and Mark McGlashan

2 The expression of bias in (online) newspaper headlines
Michele Sala

3 Critical discourse analysis approaches to investigating fake news and disinformation
Farah Sabbah

4 Introducing digital source criticism: a method for tackling fake news and disinformation
Bente Kalsnes

5 A model for understanding and assessing semi-fake scientific news reporting
Paola Catenaccio

6 Misinformation detection in news text: automatic methods and data limitations
Fatemeh Torabi Asr, Mehrdad Mokhtari, and Maite Taboada

7 Fakespeak in 280 characters: exploring the language of disinformation on Twitter through a comparative corpus-based approach
Sylvia Jaworska

8 Debunking fake news through the multimodal composition of Internet memes
Pietro Luigi Iaia

9 “It’s never about #ProLife, it’s about punishment, hate, and religious repression”. Polarising discourses and disinformation in the abortion debate on Twitter
Stefania M. Maci and Simone Abbiati

10 Investigating the language of fake news across cultures
Nele Põldvere, Elizaveta Kibisova, and Silje Susanne Alvestad

11 Disinformation and immigration discourses
Charlotte Taylor

12 Brexit and disinformation
Tamsin Parnell

13 New dogs, old tricks. A corpus-assisted study of the “art” of delegitimisation in modern spoken political discourse
Alison Duguid and Alan Partington

14 The military’s approach to the information environment
Michelangelo Conoscenti

15 Attitudes about propaganda and disinformation: identifying discursive personae in YouTube comment sections Olivia Inwood and Michele Zappavigna

16 Citizens’ perspectives on the news media and democracy: a citizens’ panel case study from Wales
Philip Seargeant, Donna Smith, and Dylan Moore

17 (Dis)information and ethical guidelines: a critical discourse analysis of news reporting on violence against women Sergio Maruenda-Bataller

18 Online gendered and sexualised disinformation against women in politics
Eleonora Esposito

19 The rainbow conspiracy: a corpus-based social media analysis ofanti-LGBTIQ+ rhetoric in digital landscapes
Balirano and Bronwen Hughes

20 The discourses of climate change denialism across conspiracy and pseudoscience websites
Isobelle Clarke

21 Reframings of fake in art discourse
Chiara Degano

22 Exploring health-related misinformation, disinformation, and “fake news”
Roxanne H. Padley

23 The COVID-19 infodemic on Twitter: dialogic contraction within the echo chambers
Marina Bondi and Leonardo Sanna

24 COVID-19 parody fake voice messages on WhatsApp
Dennis Chau and Carmen Lee

25 The impact of COVID-19 reports on multicultural young people’s social and psychological well-being: novel experiential metaphors in an ELF-mediated debate on fake news
Maria Grazia Guido

26 Mapping polylogical discourse to understand (dis)information negotiation: the case of the UK events research programme
Elena Musi, Kay L. O’Halloran, Elinor Carmi, Michael Humann, Minhao Jin, Simeon Yates, and Gautam Pal

Biography

Stefania M. Maci is Full Professor of English Language at the University of Bergamo, where she is the coordinator of the MA in Digital Humanities and Director of the Research Centre on Specialised Language. Her research is focussed on the study of the English language in academic and professional contexts.

Massimiliano Demata is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Turin. He has published monographs, papers, and book chapters on British and US political discourse, nationalism and discourse, populism, computer-mediated communication, and climate change refugees.

Mark McGlashan is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the Birmingham Institute of Media and English, Birmingham City University. Mark’s research interests predominantly centre on the synthesis and application of methods from corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse studies to study a wide range of social issues, and his recent work has focussed on relationships between language and abuse. Mark is co-editor (with Professor John Mercer) of Toxic Masculinity: Men, Meaning and Digital Media (Routledge, 2023).

Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Open University, where he teaches and researches language and communication with a political focus on political discourse. His recent books include The Art of Political Storytelling, Political Activism in the Linguistic Landscape, and Crisis Leadership: Boris Johnson and Political Persuasion during the Covid Pandemic.