The persuasive and manipulative power of implicit communication

This Article Collection gathers eight contributions on the persuasive and manipulative power of linguistic implicit communication. The phenomenon is dealt with from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, with articles elucidating diversities between different implicit strategies in terms of discourse functions and cognitive processing, and others undertaking corpus-based research on the manipulative impact of implicit communication in various types of persuasive texts. The collection brings together up-to-date papers which, emphasizing different standpoints and frameworks, all contribute to move forward what the scientific community knows about several aspects of the working of persuasive implicit strategies.