The Pragmatics of Political Deception on Facebook

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dc.contributor.authorOlajimbiti, Ezekiel O.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-01T10:48:14Z
dc.date.available2020-06-01T10:48:14Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractFacebook, an intrinsic part of 21st century social realities where cognitive-participatory activities are largely captured, is consistently explored for political deception. This chapter investigates how participants utilize language to deceive politically the Nigerian electorate on Facebook. For data, 250 Facebook posts on Nigerian politics were sampled, out of which 50 were purposefully selected for being highly rich in deceptive content in order to unpack online deception through multimodal critical discourse analysis. Four deceptive forms—equivocation of identity, exaggeration of performance, falsification of corruption cases, and concealment of offences—within two socio-political contexts—election and opposition—constituted the posts. These prompt an evocation of a messianic figure, blunt condemnation, and evocation of sympathy and retrospection to achieve the political intentions of criticism, self-presentation, silent opposition, and galvanizing public support. The chapter concludes that political propaganda taps into Facebook users to appeal to their political biases and sway their opinions.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOlajimbiti, E. (2019). The Pragmatics of Political Deception on Facebook. In Handbook of Research on Deception, Fake News, and Misinformation Online (pp. 308-325). IGI Global.en_US
dc.identifier.uri10.4018/978-1-5225-8535-0.ch017
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.elizadeuniversity.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12398/728
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of English Language Studies, Elizade University, NIgeriaen_US
dc.subjectPragmaticsen_US
dc.subjectPolitical Deceptionen_US
dc.subjectFacebooken_US
dc.titleThe Pragmatics of Political Deception on Facebooken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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