The Manipulative Disguise of Truth

Becoming effective hunters of manipulative communicative moves is far from an easy capacity to develop. This book aims at offering a guide to the most dangerous traps of deceptive language as triggered by implicit communication strategies such as presupposition, implicature, topicalization and vague expressions. A look at different contexts of language use highlights some of the most remarkable implications of using indirect speech and of how it affects the correct comprehension of a message. Within the remit of communication and pragmatics studies, this work marks an advancement in the direction of delving into the linguistic manifestations of manipulative discourse, its most common contexts of use and the educational paths that can be undertaken to master it in everyday interactions.

Chao Jiang & Zhou-min Yuan, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, in Pragmatics and Society 14:4 (2023).:
This book is an up-to-date work concerning implicit language and manipulative power it possessed. The author goes to great lengths to provide the readers with both the latest discussion and frontier understanding within this research purview, making this book an enlightening guidance for the expert or lay reader. The book is very readable owing to the book’s clear structure and informative content, and thus is worth being added to the reading lists for scholars and students of linguistics, politics and communication.