Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation

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.

• 1. The Various Dimensions of Disinformation: An IntroductionPart I: Genres and methodologies2. The Expression of Bias in (Online) Newspaper Headlines3. Critical Discourse Analysis Approaches to Investigating Fake News and Disinformation4. Introducing Digital Source Criticism: A Method for Tackling Fake News and Disinformation5. A Model for Understanding and Assessing Semi-Fake Scientific News Reporting 6. Misinformation Detection in News Text: Automatic Methods and Data Limitations7. Fakespeak in 280 Characters: Exploring the Language of Disinformation on Twitter through a Comparative Corpus-based Approach8. Debunking Fake News through the Multimodal Composition of Internet Memes9. "It’s never about #ProLife, it’s about punishment, hate, and religious repression." Polarising Discourses and Disinformation in the Abortion Debate on Twitter 10. Investigating the Language of Fake News across CulturesPart II: Case studiesA. Politics11. Disinformation and Immigration Discourses12. Brexit and Disinformation13. New Dogs, Old Tricks. A Corpus-Assisted Study of the ‘Art’ of Delegitimisation in Modern Spoken Political Discourse 14. The Military’s Approach to the Information Environment15. Attitudes about Propaganda and Disinformation: Identifying Discursive Personae in YouTube Comment Sections16. Citizens’ Perspectives on the News Media and Democracy: a Citizens’ Panel Case Study from Wales B. Society17. (Dis)information and Ethical Guidelines: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reporting on Violence against Women 18. Online Gendered and Sexualised Disinformation against Women in Politics19. The Rainbow Conspiracy: A Corpus-Based Social Media Analysis of Anti-LGBTIQ+ Rhetoric in Digital Landscapes20. The Discourses of Climate Change Denialism across Conspiracy and Pseudoscience Websites21. Reframing of Fake in Art DiscourseC. Medical discourses22. Exploring Health-related Misinformation, Disinformation and "Fake News"23. The COVID-19 Infodemic on Twitter: Dialogic Contraction within the Echo Chambers24. COVID-19 Parody Fake Voice Messages on WhatsApp25. 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 News26. Mapping Polylogical Discourse to Understand (Dis)Information Negotiation: The Case of the UK Events Research Programme Index