LINGUIST List 33.225
Fri Jan 21 2022
FYI: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 04-Jan-2022
From: Chris Shei <c-c.shei
swansea.ac.uk>
Subject: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering
E-mail this message to a friend The Routledge handbook of language and mind engineering aims to bring together a collection of groundbreaking essays on mind engineering (alternatively called mind control, brainwashing, cognitive manipulation, and so on) in today’s society in all walks of life. The handbook explores the anatomy of mind engineering technique by scrutinizing it from linguistic, media and technology, and psychological perspectives. Proposals of chapters are solicitated in the following areas in the form of a tentative chapter title and an abstract of no less than 300 words. For your reference, two chapter names already admitted are given below in relevant sections.
Mind engineering theory
(Brainwashing in literary and historical contexts, The theory and philosophy of mind engineering)
- Brainwashing in Cold War Fiction and Film
- Bernays to Big Data: From the Engineering of Consent to the Engineering of the Mind
Political mind engineering
(Patriotic education and nationalism, Propaganda, censorship, prosecution and murder, Humiliation, threat, superiority, collective goods, world peace)
- Creating Model Chinese Youth in X-Change: A Multimodal Legitimation Analysis
- Patriotic and nationalistic discourse in sociological field in China in the context of social management ideas
Mind engineering in business and industry
(Media advertisements, Email or phone scams, Social media manipulation and game addiction)
- The Benefit of the Doubt: How Big Oil Made Us Think
- Collective narratives in workplaces: from identity work to a form of mind shaping
Mind engineering in other domains
(Religious brainwashing, Gender inequality, Family and ethnic mind engineering, Culture as mind engineering tool, The rule of law)
- Of Maidens, Stars and the Blue of Night: A Critical Approach to Understanding Extremist Recruitment through Songs and Dreams
- Empowering women in social media discourse
Linguistic aspect of mind engineering
(Linguistic analysis of mind engineering publications, Analyzing patriotic and nationalistic discourse, authoritarian documents and speeches, Sociolinguistic or Psycholinguistics aspect of mind engineering)
- The metapragmatics of political mind engineering in Chinese official discourse: Steering the pendulum between authoritarian and totalitarian discourse modes
- Linguistic Characteristics and Strategies of Mind Engineering: Evidence from Political, Nationalist, and Pro-China Discourse
Psychological aspect of mind engineering
(The malleability and manipulability of the human mind, The neurological basis of mind engineering, The use of logical fallacies and outright deception in mind engineering)
- Designing Mental Wellness Therapies Using Mind Engineering Techniques
- Language Corruption in a Blended Space: A Cognitive Linguistic Account
Please email your proposal with proposed chapter title, abstract and the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the proposed author(s) to both editors’ email addresses below:
Dr Chris Shei: c-c.shei
swansea.ac.uk
Dr Jim Schnell: james.schnell
fulbrightmail.org
Deadline for submitting your chapter proposal: 31 January 2022
Deadline for submitting full article if commissioned: 31 December 2022
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Page Updated: 21-Jan-2022