Language and manipulation in House of Cards : a pragma-stylistic perspective / Sandrine Sorlin.
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Power & (Fictional) Politics
- The Original Novel and the `Fictionalization' of Politics
- A Pragma-Stylistic Approach
- Manipulation: Definitions and Theories
- Theoretical Frameworks
- Book Structure
- References
- 2. Mac restructure and Linguistic Characterization
- House of Cards as a Modern Tale
- Revisiting Greimas's Actantial Model
- Pragmatics and Ideology
- From a Narrative Framework to a Model of Pragmatic Interaction
- The (Anti-) Hero's `Expressive Identity'
- Power Relations in the Chain of Being
- Spatiotemporal Metaphors
- Visual and Textual Grammar
- References
- 3. Concealing, Distorting and Creating Reality
- A Postmodern Political Series: The Era of (Meta) Communication
- Creating News: Media and Politics
- Controlling Public Opinion
- Impression Management
- Fabricating Possible Worlds
- Manipulating Pragmatic Inferences
- Re-Naming and Euphemizing
- References
- 4. Manipulative Moves: Between Persuasion and Coercion
- Towards a Pragma-Rhetorical Theory of Manipulation
- A `Manipulative Principle'?
- The Parasitic Nature of Manipulation
- Manipulating Persuasion: Argumentative and Cognitive Views
- Negotiating
- Constraining Interpretative Effects
- A Continuum Between Manipulation and Coercion
- Paternalistic Manipulativeness
- Coercive Power and Degree of Optionality
- Manipulative Threats
- References
- 5. The Art of Winning Over through Face-Work: Success and Failure
- Hybrid Face Acts: The Polite Impoliteness of Cajoling Discourse
- Provoking vs Seducing
- Provocation: Crushing Face Claims and `Sociality Rights'
- `Seduce Him. Give Him Your Heart. Cut It Out and Put It in His Fucking Hands'
- Manipulation Seen Through
- Fake Pos-Politeness Exposed
- Dismissed Seduction and Fake Teasing
- Face Sensitivities in the Underwood Couple
- References
- 6. Aesthetic Manipulation
- Keys to the Success of House of Cards
- Suspense, Surprises and Shakespearian Echoes
- The Power of the Second-Person Address
- The Cognitive and Stylistic Manipulation of the Viewer
- A Rhetoric of Certainty
- Rooting for the Anti-Hero
- References
- 7. Concluding Remarks: Reciprocation and (Im)Politeness
- Behind-the-Scenes Politics: Interdependency and Constraints
- The Debt/Credit Equation
- Media Influence
- Manipulative (Im)Politeness
- A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
- Towards a Less Irenic Philosophy of Language
- References.