凯文·斯派西（Kevin Spacey）的YouTube视频《让我坦率》（Let Me Be Frank）中操纵性言论的影响

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Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI:10.1515/text-2021-0022

Sandrine Sorlin

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摘要本文聚焦于凯文·斯派西在2018年圣诞节前夕发布的YouTube视频中的操纵性言论，当时他在美国楠塔基特地区法院面临性侵重罪指控，本文质疑史派西对第一人称代词的使用在多大程度上可以被称为“双重指示”。研究结果表明，史派西对指示语的战略性使用使他能够模糊身份，将虚构世界和现实世界混为一谈。他使用指示语的方式不仅阻碍了简单的解释，使认知投射复杂化，而且他给观众分配了一个尴尬的双重定位（作为粉丝和公民）。文章还试图阐明史派西操纵观众的复杂影响。这表明，“双重意识”的概念在这里失灵了，因为“第三意识”似乎被强加给了观众。这也许可以解释为什么某些观众在观看这段被媒体定义为“令人毛骨悚然”的视频时可能会经历一些“认知失调”。

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The effects of manipulative rhetoric in Kevin Spacey’s “Let Me Be Frank” YouTube video

Abstract This article focuses on Kevin Spacey’s manipulative rhetoric in the YouTube video he posted on Christmas Eve in 2018 when he was facing a felony sexual assault charge in Nantucket District Court in USA. Drawing upon the notion of “double deixis” used for the second-person pronoun, this article questions the extent to which Spacey’s use of the first-person pronoun could be called “doubly deictic”. The findings show that Spacey’s strategic use of deixis allows him to blur identities and conflate fictional and real worlds. Not only is he using deixis in a way that hampers easy interpretation and complicates cognitive projection but he assigns his audience an awkward double positioning (as fans and citizens). The article also tries to elucidate the complex effects of Spacey’s manipulation on viewers. It suggests an addition to the notion of “double consciousness” that malfunctions here, as a “third consciousness” seems to be imposed onto the audience. This may explain why certain viewers are likely to experience some “cognitive dissonance” while watching this video that the media has defined as “creepy”.

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