33.175, Books: The Language of Violent Jihad: Baker, Vessey, McEnery

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Subject: 33.175, Books: The Language of Violent Jihad: Baker, Vessey, McEnery

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:53:16
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Language of Violent Jihad: Baker, Vessey, McEnery

 


Title: The Language of Violent Jihad 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/discourse-analysis/language-violent-jihad?format=HB 


Author: Paul Baker
Author: Rachelle Vessey
Author: Tony McEnery

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108421119 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108421119 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108421119 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

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 allows the identification of frequent words and
phrases, alongside close reading of texts via discourse analysis. 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.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Terrorism and Language; 3. Collecting and Analysing
Extremist Texts; 4. The In-Group; 5. The Out-group; 6. The Path of Jihad; 7.
Linguistic Strategies; 8. Conclusion.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis


Written In: English  (eng)

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