Michael Billig
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Billig plays a role.
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Chapter 6. How can governments be prevented from manipulating statistics about Covid-19? An example from UK politics Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 186–214 | Chapter
2024 This chapter is part of a project examining how politicians manipulate statistics and how they can be institutionally countered. We rhetorically analyse how the Chair of the United Kingdom Statistics Authority countered the Minister of Health who was manipulating the statistics for Covid-19… read more