Linguistic Traces of Psychological Manipulations in Discussions of Wikipedia Talk Pages

The paper deals with the symbiosis of linguistic, psychological and media-text discourse analyses in order to reveal linguistic manipulation in the Wikipedia Talk Page “Media Manipulation”. A variety of manipulative techniques and their linguistic interpretation has been considered. The frequency of occurrence of specific linguistic units has been estimated. The generalized sequence of manipulations concerning the most heated conversation has been provided. The sequence has been represented by 14 oppositions of the most concerned users. Implicit and explicit forms of manipulations using a range of linguistic, media-discourse markers as well as psychological insights and manipulative techniques have been revealed. Linguistic traces of psychological manipulations have been treated as an attempt to formalize the process of manipulative influences.

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