| Description |
1 online resource (x, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Terrorism and Language -- Collecting and Analysing Extremist Texts -- The In-group -- The Out-group -- The Path of Jihad -- Linguistic Strategies -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"How do violent jihadists use language to try to persuade people to carry out violent acts? This book analyses over two million words of texts produced by violent jihadists to identify and examine the linguistic strategies employed. Taking a mixed methods approach, the authors combine quantitative methods from corpus linguistics, which allow the identification of frequent words and phrases, alongside close reading of texts via discourse analyses. The analysis compares language use across three sets of texts: those which advocate violence, those which take a hostile but non-violent standpoint, and those which take a moderate perspective, identifying the different uses of language associated with different stages of radicalization. The book also discusses how strategies including use of Arabic, romanisation, formal English, quotation, metaphor, dehumanisation and collectivisation are used to create in and out groups and justify violence."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed November 1, 2021) |
| Subject |
Terrorists -- Language
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Language and languages -- Political aspects.
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Jihad.
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Violence in language.
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Terrorists -- Language -- Case studies
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
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Jihad
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Language and languages -- Political aspects
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Violence in language
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vessey, Rachelle, author
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McEnery, Tony, 1964- author.
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| LC no. |
2021026884 |
| ISBN |
9781108363365 |
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1108363369 |
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