36.146, Books: The Language of Violent Jihad: Paul Baker, Rachelle Vessey, Tony McEnery

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Date: 14-Jan-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Language of Violent Jihad: Paul Baker, Rachelle Vessey, Tony McEnery


Title: The Language of Violent Jihad
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781108431378

Author(s): Paul Baker, Rachelle Vessey, Tony McEnery

Paperback 9781108431378: £24.99 / $29.99 / 29.17 EURO

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.

Written In: English (eng)



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