Language of conspiracy theories

Sleeping sheep, mainstream media, corona dictatorship - Language plays a decisive role in the spread of conspiracy narratives. It is through it that a conspiracy becomes perceptible in the first place, e.g. in social media. It is the interaction of different linguistic or rhetorical means that allow to speak of a kind of "language of conspiracy theories". The stronger the linguistic means, the more successful a conspiracy narrative can be spread. In the context of linguistic research on conspiracy theories, it was possible to determine which linguistic means occur particularly frequently, among others:

• Relativizing words intended to trigger doubt
  Examples: The so-called pandemic. The alleged moon landing.
• Debunking vocabulary,to make the conspiracy narrative seem believable
  Examples: It's obvious. It is absolutely obvious.
• Word formations in which something is added to a neutral word in such a way as to clarify the conspiracy behind it
  Examples: lying-press; corona-dictatorship; state-terrorism
• Metaphors intended to illustrate that powerful groups are acting conspiratorially
  Examples: "theater metaphors": we are being hoodwinked . The population are just puppets. It's all just theater. One mustlook behind the curtain.