{"product_id":"9798765100813","title":"The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions","description":"Author: Harvey, Robert\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798765100813\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Apr 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 216 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rhetoric of Manipulation \u003c\/i\u003elooks behind the curtain of political and social communications in the age of \"fake news\" and the \"post-truth\" to show how the perversely engineered semantics at work today shapes culture and undermines reality. While language has always been manipulated to direct or anesthetize thought, today's semantic perversions orient opinion and subdue political action to an alarming degree. Under such conditions, we are particularly susceptible to demagoguery.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Arguing that too many of us have let our critical faculties wither, Robert Harvey opens our ears and eyes to an insidious impediment to free thinking by unflinchingly examining five realms of semantic perversion- the contemporary vocabulary of war; the recently evolved language tool known as scare quotes; the terms used to peddle white supremacy; the phenomenon of so-called cancel culture; and the jargon deployed in the corporatization of higher education.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The wager of \u003ci\u003eThe Rhetoric of Manipulation \u003c\/i\u003eis that a frank expose of bad faith discursive practices and our accompanying gullibility can contribute to reversing the trend, remedying the current situation in view of a far more ethical immediate future, and remediating some of the damage already done.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46643216515230,"sku":"UBD-9798765100813","price":44.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9798765100813.jpg?v=1774484305","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9798765100813","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}