About the blog

This is a blog about the implicit and often hidden properties of deception in language, based on rigorous academic research, presented here in an easily accessible way.

You can find my academic (and therefore long!) CV here.

Please subscribe to or bookmark the blog to learn about my research on the language of fake news and the implicit properties of deception that I have uncovered in my data, including false implicatures and presuppositions; metaphor, hyperbole and other forms of figurative language; communicative indirectness when giving advice; and more.

I cover a variety of topics from health and war to anti-democracy movements. The data are based on written and multimodal communication, in language produced by humans and AI chatbots, and on a variety of different types of fake news, mainly disinformation, misinformation, pseudoscience, propaganda and foreign influence operations.

I would appreciate your feedback on the posts, so feel free to leave a comment or find me on Mastodon or Eurosky! 😊

Cheers,
Nele