Manipulations in argumentation

Ilatov, Zinaida

doi:10.1007/bf00710818

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“…Jacobs et al, 1996); generalizations (Bilmes, 2008; Van Dijk, 1984, 1987) and metaphors (Chilton, 2005; Medhurst, 1990); forms of actor descriptions (Van Leeuwen, 1996); granularity and other modes of situation or event description: more or less precise or complete, detailed or vague, close versus distant, and so on (Bhatia, 2005; Van Dijk, 2014; Zhang, 2015); storytelling (see e.g. Auvinen et al, 2013; Van Dijk, 1984); argumentation (Boix, 2007; Ilatov, 1993; Kienpointer, 2005; Nettel and Roque, 2012); superstructural (schematic) categories, such as headlines in news reports (Van Dijk, 1988a, 1988b); general ideological polarization between in-groups (Us) and out-groups (Them; Van Dijk, 1998). …”

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How Globo media manipulated the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff

Dijk

2017

Discourse & Communication

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The impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was the result of a coup of the economically dominant conservative oligarchy against the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, the Worker’s Party), in power since 2003. The right wing Brazilian media played a crucial role in this coup by manipulating public opinion as well as the politicians who voted against Dilma. In particular, the media of the powerful Globo Corporation, such as O Globo newspaper, and especially Globo’s Jornal Nacional, the pervasive TV news program, systematically demonized and delegitimized Dilma, as well as ex-President Lula and the PT, in their news reports and editorials by selectively associating them with pervasive corruption and attributing the serious economic recession to them. After a summary of this sociopolitical context, and a brief theoretical definition of manipulation, this article examines some of the manipulative strategies of O Globo’s editorials during March and April 2016.

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How Globo media manipulated the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff

Dijk

2017

Discourse & Communication

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Strategic communication in the Covid-19 pandemic

Macagno,

Trevisan

2024

Pragmatics &Amp; Beyond New Series

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The Covid-19 pandemic underscored the crucial importance of arguments in developing citizens’ trust and the social risks of manipulation. However, how to assess and describe the argumentative and manipulative strategies of institutional actors? In this paper, the institutional argumentation of the governing leaders and the Health Ministries of Brazil and Portugal are coded and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively through the use of argumentation profiles, which are used for classifying and capturing the types of arguments, the fallacies, and the emotive language of each speaker. The results show how the different approaches to the crisis of the two countries are mirrored by distinct argumentative strategies indicating distinct communicative goals, namely pandemic campaigning and joint decision-making.

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Manipulations in argumentation

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

How Globo media manipulated the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff

How Globo media manipulated the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff

Strategic communication in the Covid-19 pandemic

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