A contrastive analysis of the discourse of English and Spanish influencers on X and Instagram
This proposal focuses on the study of communication in social media from a pragmatic point of view. The study involves the contrastive analysis of the... Read More
Self-serving mitigation in responses to online negative feedback. A cross-linguistic analysis
Research has shown that responses to negative feedback in online hotel reviews do not only consist of rapport-enhancing but also of defensive strategies in an... Read More
The analysis of utterances with imperative forms in Hungarian health-related fake news
In the recent years the number of health-related fake news has increased especially during the COVID-19 pandemic causing serious harms. Therefore, detecting fake news and... Read More
Is stance in fake news expressed differently across languages?
In this corpus study, we examine the use and distribution of stance expressions in fake news in three languages: English, Norwegian and Russian. Stance is... Read More
Conspiracy theory discourse: a corpus-driven cross-linguistic analysis of Telegram data
The present study will provide a corpus-driven analysis of anti-scientific conspiracy theory discourse in a computer-mediated communication setting (CMC), by comparing data gathered from a... Read More
Implicit persuasion in news report: a corpus-based study of present-day Italian
Research on implicit strategies, including a.o. implicatures and presuppositions, has suggested that these can be used to persuade addressees, particularly when the implicit content consists... Read More
Circulation of hate speech through implicit meanings
In this talk, I will analyse hate speech meaning from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics (Guillén-Nieto 2023: 153–187) by addressing the role of implicit hate... Read More
Implicit pragmatic phenomena in Hungarian health-related real and fake news headlines: a corpus-based comparative analysis
On digital platforms, spreading of fake news is approximately ten times quicker than that of real news (Krekó 2021), causing serious harm in various areas... Read More
Framing of vaccination in Hungarian (fake) news
The research on fake news, false information and disinformation has become a challenge in the era of digital media. One of the linguistic research directions... Read More
Self-praise strategies in French and US press releases: a cross-cultural perspective
Within Politeness Theory, self-praise has traditionally been described as a problematic speech act, since it infringes the “maxim of modesty” (Leech, 1983) and it does... Read More