Titlebook: Language and Manipulation in House of Cards; A Pragma-Stylistic P Sandrine Sorlin Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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Sandrine Sorlinhroughs extending known results for the prototype equations .Degenerate and singular parabolic equations have been the subject of extensive research for the last 25 years. Despite important achievements, the issue of the Harnack inequality for non-negative solutions to these equations, both of .p.-L

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ontext in which the series was created and the specificitiesThis book is to date the first monograph-length study of the popular American political TV series .House of Cards.. It proposes an encompassing analysis of the first three seasons from the unusual angles of discourse and dialogue. The study

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Book 2016is of the first three seasons from the unusual angles of discourse and dialogue. The study of the stylistic idiosyncrasies of the ruthless main protagonist, Frank Underwood, is completed by a pragmatic and cognitive approach exposing the main characters’ manipulative strategies to win over the other

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Aesthetic Manipulation,hetoric of certainty’ which produces a cognitive effect of authority that is hard for the viewer to resist. After going through some fans’ reactions in discussion threads, Sorlin shows how and why Frank’s ‘dark charisma’ starts to crumble in the third season.

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Concluding Remarks: Reciprocation and (Im)Politeness, cases where politeness is used as a strategy of manipulation. She concludes on the claim that traditional philosophy of language has unfairly discarded agonistic exchanges as ‘failures’ of communication.

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Power & (Fictional) Politics, power and dialogue in TV series constitutes a relatively uncharted territory. She finally discusses the choice of a rarely adopted pragma-stylistic perspective for her study of . as an aesthetic whole.

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Concealing, Distorting and Creating Reality,tes the other characters’ pragmatic inferences to further his own personal agenda. Based on re-labelling and de-labelling processes, his linguistic rationalizations offer euphemized versions of the facts that aim at making illusion pose as reality.