Samuli Björninen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Samuli Björninen plays a role.
Article
2019 The rhetoric of factuality in narrative: Appeals to authority in Claas Relotius’s feature journalism Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling, Browse, Sam, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara (eds.), pp. 352–370 | Article
The article presents a method for studying the factuality of narrative as a rhetoric. The need for such a method is apparent in the so-called post-truth climate, which sees us witnessing debates about semantic chimeras like “alternative facts” and “fake news.” The article arrives at its method… read more