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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Features and functions of implicitness in verbal communication |
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1.2 Implicit communication: A working definition |
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1.3 Manipulation in language |
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1.4 The "design features" of implicit communication |
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1.5 Content commitment and discourse commitment |
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1.6 Evolutionary perspectives |
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1.7 Manipulation and persuasion |
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Chapter 2 Quantitative and experimental approaches to implicit and manipulative communication |
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2.2 Persuasive presuppositions |
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2.3 Persuasive topicalizations |
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2.4 Persuasive implicatures |
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2.6 Persuasive effects of presupposition, topic, implicatures and vagueness in political discourse |
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2.7 Experimental perspectives on the processing of implicit communication |
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2.7.1 Behavioral evidence |
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2.7.2 Neurolinguistic evidence |
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2.8 Explaining the manipulative impact of implicit strategies between behavioral and neurological evidence |
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Chapter 3 The manipulative evidentiality of implicit communication |
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3.2 Evidentiality as encoded by presumptive meanings |
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3.3 Evidential systems: A brief overview |
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3.3.1 The evidential value of assertion, presupposition and topic |
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3.3.2 The evidential value of implicature and vagueness |
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3.4 Presupposition, assertion and their evidential meaning in political discourse |
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Chapter 4 Manipulation in news discourse: The function of presuppositions in the language of journalism |
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4.2 News language and manipulation |
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4.3 Text comprehension within "good enough" perspectives on language processing |
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4.4 Data analysis: Functions of presuppositions in Italian news language |
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4.5 Types of presupposed content |
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4.5.1 Presupposition and neutral information |
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4.5.2 Evaluative presuppositions |
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4.5.3 Presupposition and blasting |
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4.5.4 Presupposition and irony |
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4.6 Distribution of presuppositions and content types in the Italian press |
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Chapter 5 Manipulating translations |
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5.2 Pragmatics in translation |
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5.3 Translation and manipulation |
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5.3.1 Translating topic and focus |
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5.3.2 Translating implicatures |
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5.3.3 Translating presuppositions |
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5.3.4 Translating vagueness |
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5.4 Towards translational criteria of implicit communication |
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Chapter 6 Teaching how to detect manipulative language |
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6.2 Critically reading political messages on Twitter |
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6.2.1 Training students to detect implicit communication: A Polish-Italian pilot study |
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6.3 Making knowledge of implicit communication available to everybody |
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6.3.1 The IMPAQTS project and the OPPP! website |
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6.3.2 More on the OPPP! website |
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6.3.3 Educating to a "culture of implicitness" |
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6.4 Implicit communication as a way to distinguish between different text types |
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6.4.1 The corpus and the method |
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6.4.2 Results and discussion |
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Conclusion |
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References |
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Index |
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