Christoph Purschke – författare

From anti-vaccine politics to aliens, this volume explores diverse critical approaches to conspiracy narratives representing them as playful stories with serious ideologies and effects.It examines conspiracy in relation to social power and authority, moving beyond either disinformation or revelation. In addition, it looks at how the genre of conspiracy is the performance of questioning authority to produce new forms of expertise which frequently stabilize existing power hierarchies.Across three parts, the book theorizes how conspiracy narratives are told, what they do in the social world, and how they circulate these social meanings. Part One offers semiotic and narrative analyses of the language of conspiracy as a genre. Part Two examines the social effects of these narratives, arguing that elite conspiracy is a means to stabilize social power, looking in particular at gender-related conspiracies around feminism, abortion and trans rights. Part Three considers the circulation of conspiracies and the ideologies they narrate, using unique mixed methods approaches to look at multilingual data in sites and communities in Brazil, Germany, and the USA.

From anti-vaccine politics to aliens, this volume explores diverse critical approaches to conspiracy narratives representing them as playful stories with serious ideologies and effects. It examines conspiracy in relation to social power and authority, moving beyond either disinformation or revelation. In addition, it looks at how the genre of conspiracy is the performance of questioning authority to produce new forms of expertise which frequently stabilize existing power hierarchies. Across three parts, the book theorizes how conspiracy narratives are told, what they do in the social world, and how they circulate these social meanings. Part One offers semiotic and narrative analyses of the language of conspiracy as a genre. Part Two examines the social effects of these narratives, arguing that elite conspiracy is a means to stabilize social power, looking in particular at gender-related conspiracies around feminism, abortion and trans rights. Part Three considers the circulation of conspiracies and the ideologies they narrate, using unique mixed methods approaches to look at multilingual data in sites and communities in Brazil, Germany, and the USA.

From anti-vaccine politics to aliens, this volume explores diverse critical approaches to conspiracy narratives representing them as playful stories with serious ideologies and effects. It examines conspiracy in relation to social power and authority, moving beyond either disinformation or revelation. In addition, it looks at how the genre of conspiracy is the performance of questioning authority to produce new forms of expertise which frequently stabilize existing power hierarchies. Across three parts, the book theorizes how conspiracy narratives are told, what they do in the social world, and how they circulate these social meanings. Part One offers semiotic and narrative analyses of the language of conspiracy as a genre. Part Two examines the social effects of these narratives, arguing that elite conspiracy is a means to stabilize social power, looking in particular at gender-related conspiracies around feminism, abortion and trans rights. Part Three considers the circulation of conspiracies and the ideologies they narrate, using unique mixed methods approaches to look at multilingual data in sites and communities in Brazil, Germany, and the USA.

Die wissenschaftliche Erforschung der deutschen Dialekte kann auf eine lange Tradition zurückblicken, die sich etwa in linguistischen Dialekteinteilungen niederschlägt. Was aber wissen die Sprachbenutzer selbst über die Sprachräume des Deutschen und ihre Grenzen? Und welche Bedeutung hat dieses Wissen für die Struktur und Dynamik der Dialekte? In diesem E-Book wird die Variationslinguistik um die Perspektive der Sprachbenutzer selbst erweitert. Am Beispiel mitteldeutscher Varietäten untersucht der Autor, wie individuelle Sprachraumkonzepte semantisch strukturiert sind und auf welche Typen von Erfahrungsinhalten sie verweisen. Die Untersuchung linguistischer Übergangsräume zeigt zudem, dass das Wissen der Sprecher in direktem Zusammenhang mit der sprachlichen Dynamik steht: Stabile Grenzen lassen sich nur zwischen solchen Sprachräumen nachweisen, die sowohl hinsichtlich ihrer linguistischen Struktur als auch in der Wahrnehmung und Bewertung der Hörer distinkt sind.Eingebettet werden die Ergebnisse in eine psychologisch fundierte Theorie des Hörerurteils, die außer der perzeptiven Auffälligkeit sprachlicher Phänomene (Salienz) auch die Bedeutung dieser Phänomene für das individuelle Sprachwissen und -handeln (Pertinenz) reflektiert.