MASON, Jessica (2019). Making fiction out of fact: attention and belief in the discourse of conspiracy. Narrative Inquiry, 29 (2), 293-312. [Article]
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Abstract
This article explores fictionality within the context of the discourse of conspiracy. In
particular it examines the phenomenon of ‘false flag’ narratives: alternative versions
of an event constructed by individuals who have become convinced that a news story
has in fact been staged for malfeasant purposes. The chapter uses figure-ground
analysis, which facilitates examination of how attention is distributed within a text.
Specifically, it enables an examination of the prominence and salience that is afforded
to particular elements within a text, and how this can be used to construct a fiction out
of facts. The article problematises the notion of using a pragmatic assessment of
authorial intention to establish the fictive or nonfictive status of a text. Finally, it
proposes that more work needs to be undertaken in considering instances where
authors either do not know or are conflicted about what they believe.
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