Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword: Preview by review ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Manipulation, memes and metaphors 15
6. Morpho-syntactic and textual realizations as deliberate pragmatic argumentative linguistic tools? 45
7. Towards a typology of manipulative processes 61
8. Are manipulative texts ‘coherent’? 85
9. Manipulation and cognitive pragmatics 113
10. The role of misused concepts in manufacturing consent 147
11. Manipulation in the speeches and writings of Hitler and the NSDAP from a cognitive pragmatics viewpoint 169
12. An integrated approach to the analysis of participant roles in totalitarian discourse 191
13. Racist manipulation within Austrian, German, Dutch, French and Italian right-wing populism 213
14. Intertextuality, mental spaces and the fall of a hero 237
15. Stalinist vs. fascist propaganda 251
16. Press instructions as a tool to manipulate the public under the German Nazi government — with an eye towards the German Democratic Republic 275