Appositive Word Groups as an Instrument for Creating Fake News Cover Image

Апозитивните словосъчетания като средство за създаване на фалшиви новини
Appositive Word Groups as an Instrument for Creating Fake News

Author(s): Anton Getsov
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Sociolinguistics, Theory of Communication
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: appositive word group; appositive; fake news; post-truth

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the manipulative potential of one insufficiently-explored sentence part in Bulgarian syntax – the appositive, and also the appositive phrases, which are composed of a complement (object or subject complement) and the noun it describes. The paper also stresses the appositive word groups (constructions) that follow the ‘common noun+common noun’ model. The fact that word order in this type of appositive word groups has a role in changing the intention of communication and in creating – deliberately or not – fake news in media discourse is well supported and richly illustrated.

  • Issue Year: 2/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 80-84
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Bulgarian