Intertextuality in Practice
Jessica Mason
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 33] 2019. xi, 204 pp.
Jessica Mason
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jessica Mason plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Articles
2022 Chapter 8. “If you can’t see the pattern here, there’s something wrong”: A cognitive account of conspiracy narratives, schemas, and the construction of the ‘expert’ Conspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 169–192 | Chapter
This chapter will adopt a data-driven, cognitive stylistic approach, exploring ‘false flag’ conspiracy theories about mass shootings, specifically the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, which claimed the lives of twenty children and six adults. ‘False flags’ are a sub-type of conspiracy theory where… read more
2019 Making fiction out of fact: Attention and belief in the discourse of conspiracy Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling, Browse, Sam, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara (eds.), pp. 293–312 | Article
This article explores fictionality within the context of the discourse of conspiracy. In particular it examines the phenomenon of ‘false flag’ narratives: alternative versions of an event constructed by individuals who have become convinced that a news story has in fact been staged for… read more