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How Do We Bend the Truth? The Linguistics of Propaganda and Censorship

How do we try influencing what other people think about the world? What techniques get used for bending the truth? In this week's episode, we take a look at some of the linguistics around propaganda and censorship: what people can try beyond just outright lying, how using conversational rules can get you to think things that aren't said, and how we can use bias to influence people's views. This is Topic #91! This week's tag language: Mongolian! Last episode: A Whole New World: The Semantics of Modality -    • Can We Define "Must"? The Semantics of Mod...   Other of our sociolinguistics videos: Linguistic Pride and Prejudice: Languages vs. Dialects -    • Sociolinguistics and Dialects   When Tongues Collide: Pidgins and Creoles -    • Pidgins and Creoles   Watch What You Say: Taboo and Euphemisms -    • What Makes Bad Words Bad? Taboo Language a...   Our website also has extra content about this week's topic, on the language of plausible deniability, at: http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-91/ Find us on all the social media worlds: Tumblr:   / thelingspace   Twitter:   / thelingspace   Facebook:   / thelingspace   And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com/ ! You can also find our store at the website, https://thelingspace.storenvy.com/ We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally. Looking forward to next time!