1) The title of the project

Linguistic manipulation in the press.

2) Rationale, Aims, Objectives

Manipulation is a common phenomenon that appears in mass media, but every citizen
should be aware that media and manipulate society. Evidence shows that society know
perfectly well what manipulation is but, nevertheless, they reach for newspapers which
they believe.
The purpose of the thesis is to examine what the language of the press looks like and
what its characteristic features are. What is more, the study will deal with ten
linguistic strategies of manipulation and the analysis of three articles from different
newspapers connected with Brexit issue.

3) Research questions
What is linguistic manipulation?
What are the features of the language of the press?
How language may be use as a tool of manipulation?
In what ways press manipulate society?
How language is used to manipulate information?

4) Literature review
First of all, a great writer Slauter (2015) proved changes in British and American press
over the years making clear that press has always manipulated but only ways of
manipulation changed because language changed.
Then, based on the book The Language of Newspapers (1998) written by Reah, the
author describes the language of press and proves that each newspaper has their target
audiences and they appeal to them using the appropriate language.
According to Noam Chomsky (1991), one of the classic voices of
intellectual dissent in the last decade, has compiled a list of the ten most common and
effective strategies to establish a manipulation of the population through the media.
5) Methodology

To investigate this problem, the thesis will include several news articles from
newspapers which deal with the same topic. Selected articles will be related to politics
to show different political approaches to the same topic. Articles will be taken from
the Daily Telegraph (conservative), The Guardian (Labor) and The Morning Star
(communist) newspapers in order to present divergent political positions. Then, the
thesis will include a comparison of the articles respect to 10 ways of manipulation
according to Chomsky.

6) References

Chomsky, Noam. 1991. Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of

Propaganda. New York: Seven Stories Press.
Reah, Danuta. 1998. The Language of Newspapers. London/New York: Routledge.

Manipulacja w języku.P. Krzyżanowski and P. Nowak (eds.). Lublin: Wydawnictwo

UMCS.

Fairclough, Norman. 1989. Language and Power. London/New York: Longman.

Fowler, Roger. 1991. Language in the News. Discourse and Ideology in the
Press. London/New York: Routledge.

Hatim, Basil and Ian Mason. 1997. The Translator as Communicator. London/New
York: Routledge.

Hodge, Robert and Gunther Kress. 1993. Language as Ideology. London/New York:
Routledge.

Reah, Danuta. 1998. The Language of Newspapers. London/New York: Routledge.