1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering is a comprehensive work that delves into the complex interplay between language, culture, politics, and media in shaping the human mind.
The book is divided into five main sections, each exploring different aspects of mind engineering: I. Political Mind Engineering; II. Commercial Mind Engineering; III. Media, Culture, and Mind Engineering; IV. Linguistic and Semiotic Analysis of Mind Engineering; V. Mind Engineering in Educational Settings.
The book provides a multi-dimensional perspective on how language, media, culture, and politics intersect to shape individuals' thoughts and beliefs. It highlights the diverse methods and contexts in which mind engineering occurs, making it a valuable resource for scholars, researchers, and policymakers interested in understanding the complexities of contemporary discourse and manipulation of human thought.
The contents of this cutting-edge handbook will engage all undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD students and scholars, and researchers at all levels, in fields such as languages, linguistics, politics, communication studies, media studies, and psychology.
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Editorial Board
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
Chris Shei
PART I
Political Mind Engineering
1 Nostalgia as False Commemoration: How US Conservatives and White Supremacists Mind Engineer through Dog Whistle Politics
Laila S. Dahan
2 “Trump”‑ng to the Capitol: Brainwashing through Social Media
Rimi Nandy and Jhilli Tewary
3 The Chinese Communist Party’s Historical Resolutions as Mind‑Engineering Projects
Heike Holbig
4 Identifying Partisan Efforts to Generate Authoritarian Legitimacy
Joanna Rak
5 Political Legitimization of Hybrid Regimes: Chinese State
Discourses on the Democratization of Post‑Handover Hong Kong
Chi Kit Chan
PART II
Commercial Mind Engineering
6 The Benefit of the Doubt: How Big Oil Makes Us Think
William F. Schnell
7 Chain‑Effect Mind Engineering: The Multilayered Manipulation of Advertising
Brian L. Schnell
8 On the Commodification of Sexual Wellness: Race, Gender, and the Engineering of Consent
Kwasu D. Tembo
9 Manipulative Practices of Programming and Controlling Employee Behaviour in the Activities of Chinese Managers
Pavel Deriugin, Liubov Lebedintseva, and Evgeny Kremnyov
10 Humor as a Mind‑Engineering Tool in the Digital Age: The Case of Stand‑Up Comedy
Joanna Ut‑Seong Sio and Luis Morgado da Costa
PART III
Media, Culture, and Mind Engineering
11 Corporate Colonization, Geopolitical Power Struggles, and Hypernudge – How Social Media Engineers Minds
Till Neuhaus and Lee J. Curley
12 Red Tourism: Spirituality, Modernity, and Patriotism in China’s Tibet
Kamila Hladíková
13 The Truth Lies In‑between: Mind Engineering in the 2020–2021 Indian Farmers’ Protest
Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh
14 Patriotism and Nationalism in Chinese Fansubbing Pin‑ling Chang
15 Pop Cultural Media as a Resource for Fostering Responsible World Citizens
Valentin Werner and Theresa Summer
PART IV
Linguistic and Semiotic Analysis of Mind Engineering
16 Newspeak and Cyberspeak: The Haunting Ghosts of the Russian Past
Kristina Šekrst and Sandro Skansi
17 Understanding the Roles of Violent Extremist Dream Accounts in Radicalization and Recruitment
Noor Aqsa Nabila Mat Isa, Nurul Miza Mohd Rashid, and Ahmad El‑Muhammady
18 Framing and Metaphor in Media Discourse: Multi‑Layered Metaphorical Framings of the COVID‑19 Pandemic in Newspaper Articles
Tetsuta Komatsubara
19 Uncovering the Linguistic Agenda of ‘Hindi’stan: The Political Implications of Language Imposition in India
Raisun Mathew
20 Language Corruption in Chinese: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective
Haidan Wang and Albert H. W. Jiang
21 Visual Language and Mind Engineering: The Case of Multicultural Emojis
Amin Heidari
22 Brainwashing at Home and Abroad in Cold War Fiction and Film
David Seed
PART V
Mind Engineering in Educational Setting
23 Engineering the Mind of a Child: The Potency of Japanese Language Lessons in Colonized Korea
Catherine Ryu
24 Creating ‘Ignorance of Ignorance’ through School Education: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Victimhood Nationalism and Educational Ignorance in Japan
Mitsuhiro Tada
25 Language, Ideologies, Discrimination, and Afrocentric‑Focused, Critical Language Awareness Writing Curricula for African American Language and Akan Language Speakers
Shenika Hankerson and Monica A. Obiri‑Yeboah
26 Navajo Students’ Perspectives of their Heritage Language and Translingual Identity
Yi‑Wen Huang
27 Linguistically Responsive Instruction and Ideologies in Preservice Teacher Preparation
Laura Mahalingappa, Jessica B. Crawford, and Astrid Sierra
Biography
Chris Shei, originally from Taiwan, pursued MPhil and PhD degrees in the UK at Cambridge and Edinburgh, respectively. Since 2003, Chris has taught and researched in applied linguistics and translation studies at Swansea University, UK, with a particular interest in authoritarian discourse. Highly experienced in overseeing large-scale book projects such as handbooks, encyclopedias, and thematic book series, Chris invites proposals to publish monographs, edited volumes, or book chapters in the fields of linguistics, rhetoric, political discourse, language learning, Chinese studies, or translation studies, at [email protected].
Jim Schnell, Ph.D. (Ohio University, 1982) presently works in administration at Ohio State University after spending three years as a cultural advisor in the Defense Critical Languages & Culture Program at the University of Montana, USA. He retired from the U.S. Air Force at the rank of Colonel with his final 14 years serving as an Assistant Air Force Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. Schnell is a three-time Fulbright Scholar to Cambodia, Myanmar, and Kosovo; has completed three visiting fellowships at the East-West Center (Honolulu); and has taught at universities in the United States and throughout Southeast Asia.
