The Language of Fake News
This conference will focus on the linguistic evolution of fake news from the dawn of journalism to today. It will offer insights on the dissemination and reception of fake news by addressing an important – yet overlooked – research question: what role does language play in the production and proliferation of fake news?
We invite papers that address this question from different angles, investigating:
● The register, style, and rhetoric of fake news
● Fake news in translation
● The relationship between political and propagandistic language and fake news
● The linguistic variations between rumours and fake news
● The historical evolution of the languages of fake news
● The visual languages of fake news
● The impact of ‘media revolutions’ on the languages of fake news