The language of violent jihad

by Baker, Paul

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Title Statements

Full title :The language of violent jihad / Paul Baker, Rachelle Vessey, Tony McEnery.

Summary

Introduction -- Terrorism and Language -- Collecting and Analysing Extremist Texts -- The In-group -- The Out-group -- The Path of Jihad -- Linguistic Strategies -- Conclusion.

"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."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 232, : Illustrationen

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781108421119, 1108421113
oclc:on1331985648
LC Classification:P120.T47
Dewey Decimal:400

Subjects

Case studies Djihad Gewalt Jihad Language and languages -- Political asp… LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguisti… Sprache Terrorismus Terrorists -- Case studies. -- Language Terrorists -- Language Violence in language