Structure and Features of Politically-Invested Hoaxes

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200827.045How to use a DOI?

Keywords

fake news, social function, textual structure, language features

Abstract

Hoaxes and their spread in social media have led various politicians led to legal issues and a few of them have born legal jail or financial consequences due to hoaxes and other fake news. These should have been avoidable if the fake news makers have understood two essential points. Firstly, understanding and loyalty to politically correct communication when communicating in public evading ethnic, religion, race, inter-group, and sexual orientation of the communication partners. Secondly, understanding the textual and linguistic features of fake news and refraining themselves from spreading them becomes essential. Theoretically, every text produced and reproduced by the news makers serve certain social functions, textual structures, and linguistic features. Functionally, hoax news is produced and reproduced for the purpose of spreading incorrect and untrue information about certain political issues so that readers change their mind or political affiliation. Such political agenda are textually engineered within the textual structure which is in turn realized within certain types of sentences, clauses, phrases, and words.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Kamaludin Yusra
AU  - Nuriadi Nuriadi
AU  - Amrullah Amrullah
AU  - Yuni Budi Lestari
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/28
TI  - Structure and Features of Politically-Invested Hoaxes
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Education and Social Sciences (ACCESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 177
EP  - 180
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200827.045
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200827.045
ID  - Yusra2020
ER  -