List of figures viii
List of tables x
List of contributors xi
Foreword xv
Alford Matthew
Introduction 1
Vladan Sutanovac
1 The Clarks’ Doll experiment revisited: omnipresent myth, pressurization, and education 7
Jonathan Brownlee
2 Frame it right: how far‑right ideology could shape voters’ minds – the case of Italy 21
Doriana Cimmino
3 Implicit language and news framing in reporting feminicides: Between (misleading) clickbait function and (apparent) feminist pollination 36Federica Cominetti and Francesca Belotti 36
4 Analysing the processes and consequences of the Russian encroachment of the body, mind, and soul in the language of fiction 54
Zainab Faiz
5 Raising awareness about implicitating strategies in upper secondary school pupils 67
Giulia Giunta and Viviana Masia
6 Resistance is futile: Why is it impossible to escape ideological shackles? 79
Ivana Hromatko, Mirjana Tonković, Nebojša Blanuša, Bartul Vuksan‑Ćusa and Andrea Vranić
7 Green and sustainable? Unmaking the Anglocentrism of global environmental discourse 95
Carsten Levisen
8 “Telling the good stories of Hong Kong” through the political speech of policy address 110
Phoenix Lam
9 The evidential dimension of implicit communication and its manipulative impact 127
Viviana Masia
10 (De)Colonizing the Indigenous mind? Language and emotions in Russia’s political and psychological mind engineering 143
Daria M. Schwalbe
11 Advertising activism: Exploring advertisements of cultural productions of West Bengal during Bangladesh Liberation War 1971 171
Tiyasha Sengupta
12 Language games as mind games: Apologetic speech acts as acts of mental engineering across distal linguistic cultures 188
Vladan Sutanovac
13 Linguistic implicitness to distract the critical mind 210
Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
14 Revisiting the Australian literacy wars: Authorial stance in shaping contemporary educational strategies 238
Margo Van Poucke
Index 255
Biography
Vladan Sutanovac is a cognitive scientist, cognitive/experimental (ethno) pragmatist, cognitive semanticist and philosopher of language and mind. He holds a PhD in intercultural/cognitive pragmatics, cognitive/ethnosemantics and philosophy of language and mind; a soon‑in‑hand MSc in cognitive science; Mag. phil. in applied linguistics; and MA in English language and literature. His research focuses on the investigation of cognitive underpinnings of linguistic cultures, speech act use and abuse, meaning‑making practices across cultures as well as the micro‑phenomenological and neurophysiological underpinnings of affective perception/plasticity and affective disorders (with application in non‑invasive therapeutic practice).
