Table of contents
Crisis manipulation: Discourse- and argumentation-based approaches
Part I.Crisis-driven and context-related manipulation practices
Chapter 1.Spanish influenza 1918/19: A diachronic and cross-cultural perspective on blame and blame-avoidance in media and politics in times of
crisis
Chapter 2.Manipulation in exceptional times: Exploiting overwhelming contextual parameters for manipulative purposes
Chapter 3.Manipulating citizens’ beliefs and emotions: Consensus-seeking and dissensus-generating tactics in crisis management
Chapter 4.Maintaining political authority and credibility during the Covid-19 crisis: The case of Czech government press conferences
Chapter 5.The legitimation of conspiracy theories through manipulation: The case of climate lockdowns
Part II.Discursively and argumentatively framed counter-manipulation strategies
Chapter 6.How can governments be prevented from manipulating statistics about Covid-19? An example from UK politics
Chapter 7.News media’s epistemological framings of the Covid-19 ‘lab leak’ hypothesis: A contrastive metapragmatic analysis of ‘conspiracy theory’
Chapter 8.Strategic communication in the Covid-19 pandemic: Uses of arguments and manipulative tactics in institutional social media communication
Chapter 9.Lessons learned? The role of conventional arguments in avoiding blame and rebuilding trust in banking after the financial
crisis
Index