This collection highlights multidisciplinary approaches toward better understanding the discourses of extremism, exploring the ways in which insights from linguistics and other disciplines might inform each other in enacting meaningful reforms in policy, social media, and education.
The volume is divided into three parts, bridging different disciplinary perspectives in examining different dimensions of the language of extremism in case studies from around the world. The first section features contributions on extremist language from a political lens, such as in election campaigns and media discourse. The second part looks at religious extremism and language used for the purposes of jihadist radicalisation and recruitment. A final section reflects on policy development, peace education, and conflict resolution, toward discussing ways to subvert radicalized discourses and future research building on these efforts.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in discourse analysis, language and communication, and language education, as well as related fields such as psychology, political science, and sociology.
This collection highlights multidisciplinary approaches toward better understanding the discourses of extremism, exploring the ways in which insights from linguistics and other disciplines might inform each other in enacting meaningful reforms in policy, social media, and education.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
00. Introduction: Pushing Radical Agendas to the Extreme: How an Extremist
Ideology Takes Root (and How It is Spread amongst the Masses), Katie Jane
Patterson & Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio
01. Ideology and Populism of the Reactionary Right, Teun A. van Dijk
02. Populist Atitudes and Radical Activism in the USA, José Javier Olivas
Osuna, Enrique Clari & Jocelyn J. Bélanger
03. Against the Civil Societys Centre: Mimetic Crises by the German Populist
Right, Polina Zavershinskaia
04. Nothing but a Strategy of Satan and the Media: How Religious
Fundamentalism and Populist Leaders Took over the Scientific Narration of the
Pandemic, Michele Martini
05. Stirring Up the Hornets Nest. Radicalization Strategies of the Spanish
Far-Right Twitter Followers, Francisco José Sįnchez-Garcķa
06. Hijab Controversy in Iran: Sentiment Analysis of #MahsaAmini Tweets, Ruth
Breeze & Saqlain Hassan
07. Exploring the Application of Computer Vision to Detect Faces and
Emotions: An Analysis of Radical Right-Wing Leaders, Ignacio-Jesśs
Serrano-Contreras & Javier Garcķa-Marķn
08. Terrorism and Perception, Federico Aznar Fernįndez-Montesinos & Katie J.
Patterson
09. Recruiting Magnets of Jihadi Radicalization: Unity, Redemption and
Manicheanism, Djallil Lounnas & Massimo Ramaioli
10. Representing Muslims in Jihadist Magazines: An Analysis of the
NUTCRACKER Corpus Topics, Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Tony McEnery
11. Forced Lexical Primings as Evidence of Power Relations in Jihadist
Magazines, Michael T. L. Pace-Sigge
12. Echoes of Extremism: Rap Music-Jihadism Dialogue and Violent
Radicalization among Western Youth, Jonatan Morillo Losada
13. Hate Speech under International Law and the Challenging Task of Striking
a Balance between a Legitimate and a Forbidden Opinion, Andrea Cocchini
14. A Grassroots Model for Preventing Radicalisation: Fostering Belonging,
Bridging Social Capital, Voice and Networking to Promote Successful
Integration, Francesc Torras & Jordi Collet
15. Counter Terrorism in a Pre-crime Space: Safeguarding, Radicalisation and
Extremism in Schools in England, Lynn Revell
Index
Katie Jane Patterson obtained her PhD in 2016 from the University of Liverpool. She has held full-time teaching positions at the University of Eastern Finland, University Austral de Chile, and the University of Roehampton in London. She now works at the University of Granada. Her research interests include metaphor, lexical priming and discourse analysis.
Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio is a Full Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Granada. Since obtaining her PhD, her work has combined her interest in the relationship between language and gender, language and politics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics.
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