Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

ONE — IN SOCIETY

Terror and complicity
Ideas, influence, and power
Politics – and where it’s gone
Derailed reflexivity
Enlightened condescension
Walls and borders
Of tongues ordinary and sublime
Identity
Political respect
Solidarity

TWO — AT THE UNIVERSITY

Winners and losers
An academic cytokine storm
Totalitarianism light

THREE — THROUGH THE MEDIA

The information funnel
Reflexivity on display
Info on demand
Asocial media

RECAP — SHARING RESPONSIBILITY

PROSPECT — AN ECOLOGY OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE?

About the Author

Jef Verschueren is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Antwerp and Secretary General of the International Pragmatics Association

Reviews

"This informative and illuminating book in its entirety is worth recommendation to a wide readership keen to analyze and understand political discourses in troubled times" - Guodong Jiang' and Yingying Zheng, Journal of Language and Politics"Complicity in discourse and practice is written by a senior researcher in the field of pragmatics, refelcting on problems arising from the context of his academic research. That gives it great value, not only for that particular field but also for researchers old and young from related disciplines who have been working on the relationships between language and meaning, society and politics, wrestling at interfaces between academic research and social activism." - Bob Hodge, Western Sydney University