Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19.

IF 2.4 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1177/09579265221145275

Umair Munir Hashmi, Sultan Saleh Ahmed Almekhlafy, Mohamed Elarabawy Hashem, Muhammad Shahzad, Hassam Ahmad Hashmi, Rabia Munir, Bibi Hajira Ali Asghar

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Abstract

This study attempts to generate new insights into the wide spread online and offline conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19. Twofold analytical lens consisted of narrative interrelations framework and content analysis showed how the linguistic resources and conversational such as popular socio-religious discourses, hypothetical narratives, personal narratives, personal mental archives, and interpolated arguments are integrated in the interpretation of intertextual Bases such as Bill Gates' TED talk 2015 (26%); Nematullah Wali's predictions (32%); 'End of Days' book by Sylvia Browne (14.9%); and 'The Eyes of Darkness' novel by Dean Koontz (22%) by which the conspiracists in Pakistan construct an internally persuasive discourse promoting conspiracy theories on COVID-19. Several linguistic resources such as mood, modality, topicalization, insinuation, and intertextuality emerged as the main tools of making the conspiracy theories internally persuasive.

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使其具有内部说服力：新冠肺炎阴谋论分析。

这项研究试图对广泛传播的关于新冠肺炎的在线和离线阴谋话语产生新的见解。由叙事相互关系框架和内容分析组成的双重分析视角表明，语言资源和对话，如流行的社会宗教话语、假设叙事、个人叙事、个人心理档案和插入论点，是如何整合到互文基础的解释中的，如比尔·盖茨2015年的TED演讲（26%）；Nematullah Wali的预测（32%）Sylvia Browne的《末日》（14.9%）；以及Dean Koontz（22%）的《黑暗之眼》（The Eyes of Darkness）小说，其中巴基斯坦的阴谋论者构建了一个内部有说服力的话语，宣传关于新冠肺炎的阴谋论。情绪、情态、话题化、暗示和互文性等语言资源成为使阴谋论具有内在说服力的主要工具。

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期刊介绍： Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.